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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

SIXTY-FIBST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION 



A REPORT OF 



AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FINANCIAL 

AND EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE 

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 



TRANSMITTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRE- 
SENTATIVES BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL 
JUNE 2, 1910, AND REFERRED TO THE COM- 
MITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Printed for use of the Committee 



WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1910 



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letter from the attorney-general, transmitting a report of 
an investigation of the financial and educational affairs 
of the george washington university. 

Department of Justice, 
Office of the Attorney-General, 

Washington, D. C, June 2, 1910. 
Sir: On April 25, 1910, the following resolntion was adopted by the 
House of Representatives: 

Whereas the bill H. E. 24316 designates the George Washington University as an 
institution to administer the appropriations of the Morrill acts as extended by said 
bill to the District of Columbia; and 

"Whereas statements have been made in the hearings on H. R. 12343 and in the 
public press regarding the use of the funds of the institution, the original Boutell bill, 
and in consideration of the provision made in section ten of the original charter of 
George Washington University, adopted February ninth, eighteen hundred and 
twenty-one, which, after providing that the trustees of the university shall keep 
accurate records of its proceedings and financial management, further provides that 
"the said book or journal shall at all times be open to the inspection or examination 
of the Attorney-General of the United States; and when required by either House of 
Congress it shall be the duty of said trustees to furnish information respecting their 
own conduct, the state of the institution, and of its finances, which shall or may be 
so required:" Therefore be it 

Resolved, That the House of Representatives hereby requests the Attorney-General 
of the United States to conduct a careful investigation of the financial and educational 
affairs of the said George Washington University, and to furnish the House with 
detailed report covering a period of at least the last ten years as to the receipts, invest- 
ments, and expenditures of the university in each of its departments; said report to 
be especially explicit as to the departments of engineering, architecture, veterinary 
medicine, and pharmacy on the following points: First, amount the university has 
invested in buildings in each of these departments, or number of rooms used for each 
department; second, detailed statement of items of equipment of each of these depart- 
ments; third, actual class enrollment for the past three years in each subject taught 
in each of these departments; fourth, salaries paid the individual professors of each 
of these departments, and the charges made students for laboratory fees in these 
departments. 

The only investigation which I have felt competent to conduct pur- 
suant to this resolution was an examination into the financial affairs of 
the university, as it has been uniformly held by my predecessors that 
the Attorney-General can not undertake to investigate and report 
upon questions of fact, even for the head of one of the other depart- 
ments of the Government (17 Op., 436; 19 Op., 465; 20 Op., 253-384; 
23 Op., 231); and on several occasions my predecessors have declined 
to conduct investigations at the request of either House of Congress, 
on the ground that such investigations were bevond their power under 
the statutes (1 Op., 335; 6 Op., 680, 684; 14 Op., 17-178; 10 Op., 
164). 

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4 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. "^ \>,'$ 

EPbwever, in the act of February 9, 1821, incorporating the Colum- 
bian College in the District of Columbia (6 Stat., pp. 255-258), the 
name of which was subsequently clianged, pursuant to the authority of 
Congress, to "The George Washington University," it is provided in 
the tenth section that it shall be the duty of the board of trustees to 
keep certain books of account, which shall — 

at all times be open to the inspection or examination of the Attorney-General of the 
United States; and, when required by either House of Congress, it shall be the duty 
of the said trustees to furnish any information respecting their own conduct, the state 
of the institution, and of its finances which shall or may be so required. 

Interpreting this section to impose on me a dut}^ of investigation 
into the books of account and finances of the university when so 
requested by the House of Representatives, I. have caused an exami- 
nation into those matters to be undertaken by the bureau of investiga- 
tion of this department, and I transmit to jou herewith a preliminary 
report, which I will supplement when completed by a more thorough 
and detailed report into those financial matters. This will, however, 
require considerable time to complete. Upon its receipt I transmitted 
to the board of trustees of the university a copy of the resolution of 
the House, above referred to, and requested them to furnish me for the 
House with the detailed reports called for in the resolution. 

The preliminary report of the financial condition submitted here- 
with shows that the assets of the university, as of April 27, 1910, tak- 
ing the real estate at its assessed valuation for the purposes of taxation 
and the books and equipment at the A^aluation fixed by the trustees, 
and without regard to the application of such assets to particular trust 
funds, aggregate $801,996.41, while the total indebtedness of the uni- 
A^ersity to thhd parties, as of the said date, amounts to $542,310.44. 

There was no appropriation available to this department which 
would permit me to procure expert testimonj^ as to the actual market 
value of the real estate, and I have therefore taken in said report the 
valuation at which said real estate is appraised for the purposes of 
taxation in the District of Columbia, as above stated. 

The preliminary report also shows the condition of the respective 
endowment and trust funds and the total cash receipts and disburse- 
ments, from which it will appear that the expenses of the university 
since December 31, 1899, have exceeded its income by the sum of 
$458,302.48, which amount was partly provided out of the Corcoran 
endowment fund. 

The trustees of the university have furnished me, and I transmit to 
you herewith, a report dated May 19, 1910, accompanied by six 
exhibits, numbered from 1 to 6, inclusive, and an inventory and 
appraisement of furniture and equipment. 

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours, 

Geo. W. Wickersham, 

Attorney-GeneraL 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



PRELIMOAEY EEPOET OF FmANCIAL CONDITION" OF THE 
GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

By Nelson B. Keyser and Sherrill Smith, special bank accountants. 

Washington, D. C, May 17, 1910. 
The Attorney-General, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir: Pursuant to your instructions, communicated through the 
chief of the bureau of investigation under date of April 27, 1910, we 
presented your letter dated April 26, 1910, to President Needham, of 
the George Washington University, and thereupon took possession of 
the books and records of the institution and began the investigation 
mentioned in said letter. The verification of the cash balances and 
the statements of assets and liabilities of the university hereinafter 
set out were made as of the close of business April 27, 1910. 

The accounts prior to the year 1903 were kept in the form of cash 
books, journals, and ledgers. In 1903 this system was discarded and 
a very complete system of ''cash sheets'' adopted. These show in 
detail all receipts and expenditures classified under numerous head- 
ings. From these sheets monthly and yearly abstracts or statements 
are prepared and the whole bound together at the end of each fiscal 
year. No other books have been kept, but the necessary supple- 
mental books can be prepared at any time from the information 
contained in these ''cash sheets." 

The disposition of all money received during the period covered 
by this report from the sale of property or securities belonging to the 
university or to the Corcoran or other trust funds is shown in the 
accounts kept. All payments appear to have been made by the 
proper officers in the conduct of the business of the university, and 
with the knowledge and consent of the trustees. 

In addition to the books and "cash sheets" above mentioned there 
are complete "record" or minute books of the trustees from 1821 to 
date; also minute books of the executive committee. There are also 
printed copies of the treasurer's annual reports covering the period 
from June 1, 1875, to August 31, 1909, which contain, in addition to 
the accounts of receipts and expenditures, schedules showing the 
assets of the university and its various endowment funds. 

In compliance with your further instructions to prepare at the 
earliest practicable moment a preliminary report showing the present 
financial condition of the institution, and dealing more particularly 
with the Corcoran endowment and other trust funds, including the 
congressional land grant, we have the honor to submit the following 
preliminary report: 

The detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the 
university in each of its departments called for by the resolution of 



6 GEORGE WASHINGTON UXIVEESITY. 

the House of Representatives will involve considerable detail work 
and will be treated with in a later report. In the present report we 
start with the figures contained in the treasurer's annual report for 
the fiscal year ending December 31, 1899, as a basis, and trace the 
various transactions involving the trust funds up to date. An inves- 
tigation into the origin of the various funds, which it is proposed to 
make later, may involve some changes in the figures given in the 
treasurer's report for the year ending December 31, 1899, but for the 
present they will be accepted as correct. 

As a result of our investigation, we submit the following statement 
of the liabilities and assets of the university as of April 27, 1910, 
together with a list of the assets now held in the Corcoran endowment 
and other trust funds: 

Statement of Liabilities of General Fund of George Washington University, 

April 27, 1910. 

Mortgage indebtedness |450, 000. 00 

Due to banks 61, 500. 00 

Unpaid bills 9, 395. 47 

Salaries accrued to April 27, 1910 10, 731. 19 

Accrued interest on borrowed money 10, 279. 21 

Taxes for 1910 404. 57 

Due to Corcoran endowment and other trust funds for 

money borrowed siuce December 31, 1899 $202, 014. 85 

Amount due Corcoran fund December 31, 1899 40, 000. 00 

— 242, 014. 85 

Due to Alumni Hall fund 4, 200. 00 

Proceeds of sale of lots granted by Congress $70, 872. 93 

Less amount authorized by act of Congress February 28, 

1839, to be used for payment of the then existing debts. . 7, 000. 00 

63, 872. 93 



852, 398. 22 



For the purpose of preparing this report the liabilities of the uni- 
versity and the assets of the Corcoran endowment fund and other 
trust funds have been taken at the amounts stated in the treasurer's 
report for the year ending December 31, 1899. 

In order to arrive at the exact amounts of these various funds it 
will be necessary to trace them from their inception to the date of 
treasurer's report of December 31, 1899. 

The balance of the Corcoran fund is given in that report as 
$181,326.59, but it is probable that the result of a complete audit will 
be to increase this amount at least $10,000, with a corresponding 
increase of the amount due from the general fund to the Corcoran 
endowment fund. 

In addition thereto there are a number of small scholarship and 
prize funds which were not shown in the treasurer's report of Decem- 
ber 31, 1899, the investments of which had consisted largely of 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal bonds, which were believed at that time 
to be worthless. These bonds were sold on January 4, 1904, for 
$3,510, and the amount realized therefrom is included in the amount 
$202,014.85. These funds are as follows: 

Elton professorship fund , now said to be J |14, 000. 00 

Carried in the 1899 report as 5, 000. 00 

■ $9, 000. 00 

Kendall scholarship fund, now said to be 6, 000. 00 

Carried in 1899 report as 4, 875. 00 

1, 125. 00 



GEORGE WASHIlSrGTOISr UNIVEESITY. 7 

Also the following, not shown m- the 1899 report: 

H. H. Carter scholarship $5, 000. 00 

Farnham scholarship 1, 000. 00 

Davis scholarship 1, 000. 00 

M. M. Carter scholarship 1, 000. 00 

Staughton prize fund - - - 250. 00 

Elton prize fund 250. 00 

Ruggles prize fund 500. 00 

19, 125. 00 
Less amount charged above for amount received from sale of Chesapeake 
and Ohio Canal bonds 3,510.00 

15, 615. 00 

The early records of the Columbian College show the following 
scholarship funds which are no longer carried as a liability: 

Walker scholarship, endowed July 19, 1824 $2, 500 

Withington scholarship, endowed December 13, 1826 1, 550 

12, 040. 00 

The liability of the university to the building site and enlargement 
fund depends upon the construction placed upon the terras of the 
subscription. The trustees regard the subscriptions as being made 
one-half for ''building and site" and one-half for ''enlargement of 
the educational work" or general expenses. 

Under this construction there would be a liability to replace in the build- 
ing site and enlargement fund, one-half of 136,003.77, or |18, 001. 88 

In the account above stated the general fund is charged with 
receiving the amount of subscriptions and interest $36, 003. 77 

Less payments from fund for expenses 16, 042. 08 

19,961.69 

Therefore, if the position the trustees take is correct, the amount to be 
restored by the general fund as above will be reduced by the sum of. . 1, 959. 81 

On the other hand, if the whole fund is to be treated as for a build- 
ing and site, then the general fund should restore the sum of $16,042.08 
paid out of the building site and enlargement fund for expenses in 
addition to the amounts above found. 

Assets of general fund of ThelGeorge Washington\TJniversity . 

[Available for payment of liabilities.] 

Vpeil 27, 1910.^ 

Cash in hands of the treasurer |2, 270. 42 1 

Cash deposited in banks 12, 846. 27j 

115, 116. 69 

Withdrawal value of perpetual fire-insurance policies 3, 003. 75 

Due from hospital pay patients (estimated amount collectible) 1, 500. 00 

Claim against Board of Charities for treatment of charity patients during 
fiscal years ending June 30, 1908, and June 30, 1909 (dependent upon 

congressional appropriation) 1, 335. 00 

Books in library (at the valuation fixed by trustees) 37, 000. 00 

Equipment owned (at the valuation fixed by trustees) 73, 101. 01 

Real estate: 

University and law halls, Fifteenth and H streets, lot 

containing 20,200 square feet, assessed valuation of. . . |357, 520. 00 
Medical hall and hospital, H street, between Thirteenth 
and Fourteenth, lot containing 24,536 square feet, 

assessed valuation of 215, 049. 00 

'■ 572, 569. 00 

703, 625. 45 



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GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 



The values extended in the above statement to the items of "Books 
in library" and "Equipment owned" are those fixed in the inventory 
and appraisement submitted by the trustees to the Attorney-General. 
For the real estate the assessed values are used, as we do not feel that 
we are qualified to fix the present market value of the same. 

Assets of Corcoran endowment fund and other trust funds. 
[Not available for payment of liabilities.] 



6 shares American Telegraph and Telephone Co. stock 

130 shares Washington Sanitary Improvement Co. stock 

$5,000 C, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. coUateral trust 4 per cent bonds . 
Do 

324,000 C, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. refunding 4 per cent bonds 



Note C. W. and C. M. Needham, secured by deed of trust on part of lot 27, square 
159 (1710 N street), interest 4 per cent 

Note Thos. R. Marshall, secured by deed of trust on part of lot 5, square 253 
(Losekam's cafe, 1323 F street), and lot 70, block 30, Columbia Heights (part of 
a loan of S53,000), interest 5 per cent 

Note Lewis Spectre, secured by deed of trust on lot 64, square 1017 (part of a loan 
of Sl,800), interest 5 per cent 

Cash in banks 

Due from general fund (see list of liabilities of general fund) 



Real estate: 

Admiral Powell house (1707 I street), assessed value 

Vacant lot (sublot 148, square 672, containing 3,000 square feet), assessed 
value 



Market 
value. 



$819. 00 

1,300.00 

3,875.00 

3,875.00 

21,240.00 



31,109.00 



18, 923. 00 
1,350.00 



Cost. 



$600. 00 

1,300.00 

4,118.75 

4,060.97 

20,959.17 



31,038.89 
16,000.00 

5,000.00 

200.00 

238.07 

246,214.85 



298,691.81 



20,273.00 



Assets of the congressional professorship fund. 
[Not available for payment of liabilities.] 

Amount due from general fund. (Proceeds of sale of lots. See state- 
ment of liabilities of general fund) |63, 872. 93 

Real estate: 

Lot 8, square 13 (assessed value) $2, 565. 00 

Lot 10, square 13 2, 218. 00 

Lot 12, square 13 4, 588. 00 

Lot 13, square 13 3, 924. 00 

Lot 9, square 16 2, 224. 00 

Lot 8, square 23 3, 055. 00 

Lot 2, square W. of 23 1, 069. 00 

Lot 5, square 83 3,590.00 

Lot 5, square 87 1, 896. 00 

Lot 2, square 88 492.00 

25,621.00 



89, 493. 93 



No valuation is extended on the above real estate for the reason 
that we do not feel that we are qualified to set a valuation on the 
same. 

For the purpose of showing, in a brief summary, the proportion of 
receipts to expenditures for the last ten years, thereby showing the 
deficit in current running expenses, the following schedule is given: 

The present indebtedness of the university, so far as ascertained, is 
as follows: 



GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 9 

Mortgage on university and law halls and medical school and hospital, 

held by Fidelity Trust Co. , of Philadelphia $450, 000. 00 

Indebtedness to banks for borrowed money 61, 500. 00 

Unpaid bills for February, March, April 9, 395. 47 

Salaries to April 27, 1910 10, 731. 19 

Accrued interest on mortgage and other borrowed money 10, 279. 21 

Taxes for 1910 404. 57 



542, 310. 44 
From this deduct total indebtedness as shown by treasurer's report, 
December 31, 1899 164, 652. 50 

Increase in indebtedness since December 31, 1899 377, 657. 94 

To which should be added amounts transferred from Corcoran endow- 
ment and trust funds since December 31, 1899 202, 014. 85 

Amount received from sale of government lots since December 31, 1899. . 8, 533. 03 

Amount transferred fi'om alumni hall fund 4, 200. 00 

Amount received from sale of Cutler house (222 Third street) 14, 300. 00 

Amount received from Denman estate (bequest for law school) 8, 179. 32 

614, 885. 14 
From this should be deducted the cost of new medical school and addition 
to hospital 156, 582. 66 

458, 302. 48 

The balance, amounting to $458,302.48, has been absorbed by the 
excess of expenditures over ordinary current receipts. Part of this 
is represented by additional equipment, but the larger portion of it 
was used for ordinary running expenses. 

Because of the intermingling of the various funds and the purchase 
of investments with funds belonging not only to the Corcoran endow- 
ment and other trust funds, but to the fund known as the building 
site and enlargement fund, it has been found necessary to treat all 
receipts and expenditures of these funds together in one statement 
rather than to attempt to show the proportionate ownership in 
different securities. 

The assets of the Corcoran endowment and other trust funds as 
shown by the treasurer's report, December 31, 1899, were as follows: 

Corcoran endowment fund: 

Mortgage note, A. M. McLachlen , $3, 000. 00 

Mortgage note, Power & Peterson 10, 000. 00 

Mortgage note, J. H. Lane 2, 400. 00 

Old law building site 50, 000. 00 

Columbian Building construction 99, 106. 30 

Unimproved lots 40, 000. 00 

903Mstreet 7,910.57 

1719 S street 9, 118. 83 

Burgdorflots 113,354.65 

Less sold Mrs. Lenman 7, 000. 00 

6, 354. 65 

Cash on hand 97.74 



227, 988. 09 
Less discounts at National Metropolitan Bank 46, 661. 50 

$181, 326. 59 

Mary Lowell Stone scholarship fund, invested in mortgage note, J. B. 

Wimer 2, 000. 00 

Davis prize fund, 5 shares Quinsigamond National Bank 500. 00 

Elton fund : 

Invested in mortgage note, J. B. Wimer 5. 000. 00 

Willie E. Fitch fund: 

Cash in bank |250. 67 

Invested in mortgage note, J. W. McLachlen 1, 200. 00 

1, 450. 67 



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Kendall fund: 

Invested in mortgage note, J. W. Hogg $1, 875. 00 

Invested in mortgaoe note, J. B. Wimer 3, 000. 00 

14,875.00 

Miscellaneous: 

Penn. Tel. Company stock 400. 00 

$13,000 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal bonds regarded as worthless 00, 000. 00 



195, 552. 26 
Included in the assets of the Corcoran endowment fund December 31, 
1899, was an item "140,000, unimproved lots." These are the lots 
granted by Congress for the purpose of creating a professorship fund. 
They were carried into the Corcoran endowment fund to replace as- 
sets of the fund used for other piu'poses. Inasmuch as these lots are 
the subject of a special trust, to be separately accounted for, the real 
state of affairs at that time was, that the general fund was indebted to 
the Corcoran endowment fund in the sum of $40,000 and that amount 
must therefore be deducted from the above assets 40, 000. 00 

Making total amount of assets held bv these funds December 31, 

1899 155, 552. 26 

To this must be added the following amounts received since that 
date for additional endowments: 

E. K. Cutter fund $1, 000. 00 

Eleanor J. Cooper medical endowment 8, 750. 00 

National Park Seminary endowment 500. 00 

Dr. John Odronaux endowment 4, 792. 97 

Thos. F. Walsh prize fund 300. 00 

Willie E . Fitch prize fund (additional) 189. 94 

Building site and enlargement fund 36, 003. 77 

Alumni hall fund (net) 4, 335. 86 

155, 872. 54 



211, 424. 80 



To this must be also added the following amounts representing 
profits on trust investments: 

Amount received for 1719 S street in excess of cost to the Cor- 
coran endowment fund $3, 451. 35 

Amount received fronl sale of Burgdorf lots in excess of their 
cost to Corcoran endowment fund 7, 749. 21 

Amount received from sale of Columbian Building in excess of 

its cost to Corcoran endowment fund 10, 093. 71 

Amount received from Quinsigamond National Bank stock in 

excess of amount carried as Davis prize fund 200. 00 

Amount of profit on sale of Van Ness Park 37, 956. 79 

Amount of profit on sale of Memphis Union Station certificate. 572. 46 

Profit on sale of $15,000 worth of Chicago, Rock Island and 

Pacific collateral 4 per cent bonds 1, 479. 89 

Profit on sale of $5,000 worth of Chicago, Rock Island and Pa- 
cific 5 per cent bonds of 1913 506. 25 

Received from sale of Chesapeake and Ohio bonds, regarded 

as worthless in 1899 3, 510. 00 

$65, 519. 66 



276, 944. 46 
From this should be deducted the following amounts: 



Payment of prizes on account of Willie E. Fitch prize fund $100. 00 

Loss on sale of property at 903 M street 2, 110. 57 

Payments made on account of building site and expansion fund. 16, 042. 08 



$18, 252. 65 
258, 691. 81 



GEORGE WASHINGTOISr UNIVEESITY. 11 

Balance consisting of — 

6 shares of A. T. & T. Company stock received in exchange for 

Penn. Bell Tel. Company stock, cost (market value, $819). $600.00 
130 shares Washington Sanitary Improvement Company stock, 

cost 1, 300. 00 

$5,000 worth Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific collateral trust 

4 per cent bonds, cost (market vahie, $3,875) 4, 118. 75 

$5,000 worth Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific collateral trust 

4 per cent bonds, cost (market value, $3,875) 4, 060. 97 

$24,000 worth Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific refunding 4 per 

cent bonds, cost (market value, $21,240) 20,959. 17 

Mortgage note C. W. and C. M. Needham. 16, 000. 00 

Mortgage note T. R. Marshall 5, 000. 00 

Mortgase note, Lewis Spectre 200. 00 

$52, 238. 89 

Cash in banks 238. 07 

Due from general fund 206, 214. 85 

Total 258, 691. 81 

In addition to the above there is an asset of the Corcoran endow- 
ment fund consisting of sub lot 148, square 672, which is one of the 
original Burgdorf lots, upon which no cost value is extended by reason 
of the fact that more than the cost of the Burgdorf lots has already 
been reahzed from the lots already sold. 

The borrowing from time to time from the Corcoran endowment and 
other trust funds to provide for the payment of current expenses has 
been with the knowledge and consent of the board of trustees and 
was continued in until May 7, 1908, at which time the finance com- 
mittee submitted a statement of the assets of the Corcoran fund as 
available to meet running expenses and setting forth that at the close 
of the fiscal year 1908-9 there would be a deficit of $16,540.67 "after 
all liquid cash and unencumbered real estate has been disposed of." 

A copy of this statement is attached hereto and marked "Exhibit 
D." 

Appended hereto and marked "Exhibit A" we attach a statement 
of the cash receipts and disbursements of the principal of the Corcoran 
and other trust and endowment funds from December 31, 1899, to 
date. Also a statement marked "Exhibit B," showing in detail 
transfers from the Corcoran endowment and other trust funds to the 
general expense account during the same period. 

CONGRESSIONAL LAND GRANT. 

In explanation of the item in the statement of liabilities "Proceeds 
of sale of lots granted by Congress $70,872.93, less amount authorized 
by act of Congress of February 28, 1839, to be used for payment of 
the then existing debts, $7,000; total, $63,872.93," we would state 
that by the act of Congress approved July 14, 1832, it is enacted as 
follows : 

That there shall be, and hereby are, granted to the Columbian College, in the 
District of Columbia, lots in the city of Washington, to the amount, in value, of twenty- 
five thousand dollars; which said lots shall be selected and valued by the commis- 
sioner of the public buildings, when requested by the trustees of the said college; 
and when the said lots shall be so selected and valued, the same shall be vested in 
the said corporation, in fee simple; to be by them held and disposed of in the manner 
following; that is to say, the said corporation, by proper and lawful act or acts, under 
their corporate seal, shall sell and dispose of the said lots, as soon as reasonably prac- 
ticable, for the best price or prices they can obtain ; and shall vest the proceeds of 
the same in some public stock, or in stock of some incorporated bank. 



12 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when the lots aforesaid shall be selected 
and valued as aforesaid, the said commissioner shall make retm'n of the numbers 
and description thereof to the clerk of the circuit com-t of the county of Washington, 
to be by him recorded among the records of land titles in the said county. 

Sec. 3. Ang be it further enacted, That the proceeds of the sales aforesaid, so to 
be vested, shall not be otherwise used by the said trustees than as a capital, to be 
by them forever hereafter kept vested as aforesaid; and the dividends or interest 
therefrom accruing shall, by them, be used and applied in aid of the other revenues 
of the said college, to the estabishment and endowment of such professorships therein 
as now are, or hereafter shall be, established by the said trustees; and to and for no 
other purpose whatever. 

In pursuance of this act Joseph Elgar, commissioner, selected and 
conveyed to the Columbian College in the District of Columbia' 180 
city lots. 

The act of Congress approved February 28, 1839, provided as 
follows : 

That the corporation of the Columbian College be, and hereby is, authorized to 
sell so many of the city lots, granted to said corporation by the act to which this is 
supplemental, as shall be sufficient to raise the sum of seven thousand dollars, and 
to apply the proceeds of such sale to the payment of debts due from said corporation, 
anything in the act to which this is supplemental to the contrary notwithstanding. 

The trustees of the Columbian College thereupon began the sale of 
the lots, and in 1841 had disposed of more than sufficient to raise the 
sum of $7,000. Attached hereto and marked "Exhibit C" are 
extracts from the minutes of the trustees in April, 1841. 

Subsequently, from time to time, lots were sold until there remained 
of the original grant but 10 lots, which are set out in the statement 
of assets of the congressional professorship fund. 

By an examination of the records in the recorder of deeds' office 
from 1839 to date it has been ascertained that the total consideration 
for the lots sold has been the sum of $70,872.93; so that the balance, 
after deducting the $7,000 authorized to be used for the payment of 
debts by the act of 1839 should have been invested in accordance 
with the terms of the act of 1832. It appears, however, that the 
proceeds of these sales were mingled with the other funds of the 
institution and used from time to time for its current expenses. 

By an act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, 
approved July 25, 1871, entitled "An act for the relief of the Colum- 
bian College in the District of Columbia, '^ it was enacted, inter alia, 
as follows: 

That the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia, chartered by and organ- 
ized and acting under the act of Congress approved February ninth, eighteen hundred 
and twenty-one, may, from the proceeds of any sale of its property, apply such sum 
as may be needful to pay its present indebtedness and place its libraries, buildings, 
and apparatus of instruction in good condition, and execute all deeds needful to quiet 
the title of property already sold. 

By an act of Congress approved March 3, 1873, the title of the 
Columbian College was changed to Columbian University, and it is 
further provided in section 2 of said act as follows: 

That the act for the relief of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia 
enacted by the legislative assembly of said District, and approved July twenty-fifth, 
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be, and the same is hereby, approved and con- 
firmed: Provided, That neither this act nor the said act of the legislative assembly of 
the said District shall be so construed as to authorize the said Columbian University 
to sell or use the proceeds of any sale of land granted by Congress to said institution 
for any purpose other than that expressed in the act of incorporation and the act 
granting any such land or real estate, or contrary to any will, devise, or grant of any 
land or real estate heretofore or hereafter made, by any person or persons to said 
institution. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, IS 

At this time the institution was selhng a number of lots which 
constituted a part of the then ground of the college on Capitol Hill 
which were the property of the college and were not part of the 
congressional grant. A number of the lots obtained from Congress 
were sold at this same time. 

The following extract from the records of the trustees shows the 
interpretation put b}^ thein upon the act of the legislative assembly 
of the District of Columbia and the act of Congress confirming it: 

r 
[From trustees' records, volume 3, page 354, extract from report of President Welling, March 19, 1873.} 

I have the satisfaction of stating that at the session of the National Congress just 
terminated a bill was passed lor the modification of om college charter * * * 
approving and confirmuig the act passed by the legislative assembly of the District, 
approved July 25, 1871, for the relief of the Columbian College, with a proviso that 
neither that act nor the act of Congress modifying our charter shall be so construed as 
to authorize the Columbian University to sell or use the proceeds of any sale of land 
granted by Congress to the College for any purpose other than expressed in the act of 
incorporation, and the act granting any such land or real estate, or contrary to any 
will, devise or grant of land or real estate heretofore or hereafter made to the institu- 
tion. * * * 

The proviso is enthely prospective in its operation and effect, and hence the sale 
of land and real estate already effected by virtue of the act of the legislative assembly 
is now confirmed and approved by act of Congress. **-=«■ 

CORCORAN ENDOWMENT FUND. 

The first steps toward the raising of this fund were taken by the 
board of trustees October 7, 1872, when they adopted a resolution "to 
increase the permanent endowment of the institution by raising the 
sum of $250,000." 

Mr. William W. Corcoran subsequently made a verbal offer to 
Doctor Welling, the then president of the university, to give his 
Trinidad farm of 99 acres as a part of the endowment. He after- 
wards wrote the following letter, stating the exact terms of the pro- 
posed gift: 

Washington January 11, 1873. 
William Stickney, Esq., 

Secretary and Treasurer, Trustee of the Columbian College. 

Dear Sir: The report of the president of the college made to the trustees on the 
18th December, last, and printed for the use of the members of the corporation but 
not published, seems to make the following explanation necessary in order to prevent 
any misunderstanding touching my proposition to donate Trinidad in furtherance 
of my design to place the college on a higher and more permanent footing. 

About two months before the meeting of the 18th December I first announced 
to Doctor Welling my intention, in view of the previous proposition of the trustees to 
raise the sum of $250,000 to aid in the permanent endowment of the college and its 
elevation to the dignity and usefulness of a university by donating Trinidad on cer- 
tain conditions then expressed, to the effect that there was to be no relaxation of 
effort on the part of the friends of the college to obtain the $250,000 which the board 
of trustees and overseers had previously resolved to raise for the permanent endowment 
of the institution, that the principal of the donation when realized should be funded 
and be kept forever intact, the interest alone being applied to the support of the col- 
lege, and that Doctor Welling should pledge himself to remain in his present position 
in order that I might be assured that he would give his personal attention to the admin- 
istration of the trust. 

It was distinctly understood between Doctor Welling and myself that there was to 
be no relaxation (because of the promised donation) in the effort to increase the per- 
manent endowment of the college at the earliest possible day, and it was in this faith 
that I consented, at his solicitation, that Doctor Welling should publish my purpose, 
and it was partly in this faith that he pledged himself to remain at the head of the 
college. 

In view of these facts and considerations I have provided that if the sum of not less 
than $100,000 of the $250,000 proposed to be raised be obtained in cash by the college 



14 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

authorities on or before the 1st day of January, 1875, for the purpose indicated," and 
Doctor Welling shall remain in his present position, my purpose shall be carried out, 
but if the said sum of not less than $100,000 be not raised and received as aforesaid by 
the day named, or if Doctor Welling shall cease to be the president of the college irom 
any cause except death, then, in either or both of said events, the donatio"ii will fail 
and the property will be otherwise disposed of. 

These are the terms and conditions of my offer as fully understood between Doctor 
Welling and myself, and by him, I believe, reported to the trustees, and which I will 
take pleasure in carrying out. 

Very truly, yours, W. W. Corcoran. 

On April 25, 1873, the executive committee of the trustees of the 
university issued a "Plan of Columbian University/' in which tl^e 
following statement occurs: 

Through the munificence of W. W. Corcoran, LL. D., president of the corporation, 
a valuable tract of land, adjacent to the city of Washington, estimated to be worth 
$200,000, has been pledged to the permanent endowment of the university, provided 
the additional sum of $100,000 be raised for the same purpose within the period of 
two years from the 1st clay of January last. The principal of both these sums is to be 
funded and to remain forever intact. 

On January 23, 1875, Mr. Corcoran executed a deed for the 
Trinidad farm. This was held in escrow and was to be delivered 
when $50,000 cash was obtained from subscriptions. This amount 
was afterwards paid and the deed was delivered and recorded July 
7, 1875. In this deed the follo'wing provisions appear: 

\Vhereas it is the desire of the said William W. Corcoran, to aid in the establish- 
ment, at the seat of government of the United States, of an institution, designed for 
the acquisition of knowledge in all the higher branches of learning, where the youth 
of the country may enjoy the most enlarged advantages of a liberal education through 
coming time, and with that desire and intent he is moved to make this conveyance 
to the said "Columbian University" in accordance with the acts of Congress here- 
inbefore referred to, and in part recited, to be held and disposed of, by the trustees, 
for the benefit of the sd. "Columbian University," in the manner hereinafter pro- 
vided, and in accordance with such lawful rules and regulations as now exist or that 
may hereafter be established by them and their successors. 

To have and to hold the said parcels of land, with the rights, et cetera, as aforesaid, 
unto the said party of the second part, and its assigns, for the use and benefit and pur- 
poses of the said ' ' Columbian University, " forever; but this conveyance is made in the 
nature of a trust, and upon this condition, to wit: That the said party of the second 
part, or the proper authority of the said college, or of the present Columbian Univer- 
sity, may, in their discretion, sell and convey said lands, or any portion thereof, in 
fee simple, in such a manner, at such times, and upon such terms and conditions as 
they, or their successors, may elect, provided that the proceeds, or purchase money, 
thereof, together with the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, subscribed and to be 
obtained from other sources, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of Trinidad, shall 
constitute a principal sum, to be known as the ' ' Corcoran endowment fund, ' ' and to be 
forever held inalienable, and not to be diminished by use for the support of said insti- 
tution, but that the whole amount of said principal sum shall be invested, in the dis- 
cretion of the trustees of said institution and according to their best judgment, and the 
interest thereon, or the income therefrom derived, only, shall be used for the current 
expenses and support of the said institution; provided always, that in case of the sale 
of said property, or of any portion of the same, the purchaser, or the purchasers, shall 
not be held responsible for the disposal of the purchase money; and this deed is to be 
effectual and binding in law, when accepted by the trustees of the "Columbian Uni- 
versity," and signed by the president thereof, and attested by the secretary under the 
seal of the institution. 

Subsequently the Trinidad property was sold for $85,000 and Mr. 
Corcoran, on June 11, 1886, gave a further contribution of $25,000 
cash to the fund. A copy of his letter is as follows : 

Washington, June 11, 1886. 
My Dear Doctor Welling: As I have learned that an addition to the working 
endowment of the Columbian University would greatly promote its efficiency, and as 
I continue to take a deep interest in the prosperity of the institution, I take pleasure 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 15 

in communicatino- to you, and thi'ough you to the corporation, that I will cheerfully 
contribute for this purpose the sum of $25,000, with the understanding that, as an 
addition to the present endowment the principal shall be kept perpetually intact, 
and, that only the annual interest thereof shall be used for the working expenses of the 
university. 

Yours, most truly, W. W. Corcoran. 

The balance of the fund was obtained from other subscribers. It 
has not been possible up to this date to trace out all the receipts and 
expenditures of the fund from its inception. This will be done 
later, but for the purpose of this report the amount of the fund as 
stated in the treasurer's report for December 31, 1899, is taken as a 
starting point, and all transactions since that date are fully set out 
in the schedules herein. 

The first impairment of the fund appears to have been in 1885. 
At the meeting of the corporation on March 27, 1885, Doctor Welling, 
"on behalf of the building committee," stated that ''while all the 
corporation were aware that the principal arising from the sale of 
Trinidad could not be used for current expenses, it was deemed 
advisable to borrow from this source temporaril}' the sum of S10,000, 
rather than mortgage the valuable property of the university." It 
was thereupon — 

Ordered, That the sum of |10,000 be temporarily borrowed from the cash payment 
on Trinidad, to meet the expenses incurred in the equipment of the Corcoran Scientific 
School; the consent of Mr. W. W. Corcoran to be obtained. 

It is stated in the treasurer's annual report for that year that Mr. 
Corcoran's consent was obtained to this borroMdng. 

Afterwards the university appears to have borrowed from the 
Corcoran endowment fund 138,434.13 and given its notes for the 
same. 

In the year 1897 it was discovered that the then treasurer, Robert H. 
Martin, had embezzled the sum of $25,850.81 of the funds of the insti- 
tution (of which $4,840 was subsequently recovered). Part of this 
consisted of assets of the Corcoran endowment fund. 

In volume 5 of the record of trustees, page 237, the following 
appears in the minutes of a meeting held January 29, 1887, at which 
President Whitman and Messrs. Greene, Mason, McKnew, Needham, 
Wilson, and Woodward were present : 

Mr. James G. Hill, architect, at the invitation of the treasurer, Mr. Woodward, pre- 
sented plans far a new seven-story office building on the site of the old law building, 
together with estimates of cost and probable income from rentals. 

President Whitman called attention to the fact that at the late meeting of the cor- 
poration certain plans and instructions were left to be carried out by the board : First, 
with reference to the adjustment of the Corcoran endowment and other trust funds 
made necessary by the defalcations of the late treasurer, Mr. Robert H. Martin. Mr. 
Needham offered the following resolution, which was adopted : 

"\"\'Tiereas some years heretofore a portion of the Corcoran endowment fund was 
invested in three notes aggregating 138,434.13, executed or assumed by the Columbian 
University and secured by trust deeds upon its property known as the 'law building' 
on Fifth sti-eet, and the Preparatory School building; and 

"Whereas it is for the best interests of the university that the floating indebtedness 
of the university be paid; therefore, 

^^ Resolved, That the said three notes of the Columbian University aggregating 
$38,434.13, and heretofore carried as a part of the Corcoran endowment fund be can- 
celed, and the trust deeds upon the property known as the 'law building' on Fifth 
street, and the Preparatory School building be released of record; that said property 
known as the 'law building,' being lot 14 and the south half of lot 13 in square 489 in 
the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, made a part 
and placed to the credit of the Corcoran endowment fund, free and clear of all encum- 
brance, at a valuation of |50,000, and that hereafter in all statements of the assets of 



16 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

said uniA-ersity said real estate last above described shall be listed as a part of the Cor- 
coran endowment fund at said valuation. 

"Resolved, That the twelve unimproved lots mentioned in schedule D of the treas- 
urer's report for the year ending May 31, 1897, be, and the same are hereby, made a part 
and placed to the credit of the Corcoran endowment fund free and clear of all encum- 
brances at a valuation of $40,000, and that hereafter in all statements of the assets of 
said university said twelve unimproved lots shall be listed as a part of the Corcoran 
endowment fund at said valuation. 

"Besolved, That |5,000 of the principal note of James J. Lampton for $9,000, dated 
February 9, 1895, due in five years thereafter, with the interest to accrue thereon, be 
transferred to the Mary M. Carter fund, appropriated by Robert H. Martin, and that 
hereafter only |4,000 of said principal note shall belong to and be listed in the Cor- 
coran endowment fund. 

"Resolved, That the executive committee are hereby directed to use |27,900 or as 
much thereof as may be necessary of the assets now listed under the Corcoran endow- 
ment fund and the misecellaneous investment fund, as the same matures, or can be 
disposed of at not less than their face value with accrued interest, to pay off the lia- 
bilities of the university set forth in Schedule C, of the treasurer's report for the fiscal 
year ending May 31, 1897." 

From this it would, appear that the trustees sold the old law-build- 
ing site on Fifth steet to the Corcoran fund for $50,000 and attempted 
to transfer to the Corcoran fund the balance of the lots granted by 
Congress at a valuation of S40,000. The Fifth street site had been 
offered to the Government for a post-office a short time previouslv 
for $35,000. 

The lots granted by Congress being the subject of a special trust and 
not applicable to the payment of debts, the effect of this arrangement 
was to leave the Corcoran fund impaired to the extent of $40,000. 

Afterwards the assets of the Corcoran fund were used to erect the 
Columbian Building on the Fifth street site. This was sold in 1905 
for $162,500 and the proceeds used to pay notes given for the pur- 
chase of Van Ness Park. Van Ness Park was then sold in 1907 to 
the Government for $200,000 and part of the proceeds invested and 
the balance transferred to the general fund. Most of the investments 
have since been sold and the proceeds merged into the general fund 
and used for current expenses. 

BUILDING, SITE, AND ENLARGEMENT FUND. 

In Februar}", 1907, at the time of the sale of Van Ness Park, 
the trustees of the university determined to raise $400,000 for a 
building-site fund and received various large subscriptions and offers 
of donations contingent upon their selecting one of certain sites for 
college purposes. Prominent among the proposed sites was that 
known as the "Dean site.'' 

For the purpose of raising the $400,000 two committees were 
selected, and in their solicitation apparently made different repre- 
sentations as to the purpose of the fund, one representing that it was 
for a "building site," and one that it was for a "building site and 
enlargement of the educational work." 

These two committees succeeded in raising over $100,000 in sub- 
scriptions, of which sum $35,568.18 has been paid in in cash, classi- 
fied as follows: 

Trustees $2,085.00 

Faculty 3, 635. 70 

Alumm 1, 678. 00 

Students 964. 98 

Citizens 27, 204. 50 

Total 35, 568. 18 



GEORGE WASHIJSrGTOlSr UNIVERSITY. 17 

The subscription cards in the possession of the treasurer, with one 
or two exceptions, read as follows : 

The George Washington University [date]. 

To secure the sum of four hundred thousand dollars to be applied by the trustees 
toward the purchase of grounds and buildings and the enlargement of the educational 
■work, and in consideration of the subscription of others, I will pay to the George 
Washington University dollars in five equal installments. 

Since the signing of these cards some have refused to pay anything 
and some, having paid part, have refused to continue paying, for 
the reason that the funds were being used for general expenses. 

The minutes of the trustees on October 13, 1909, show: 

The recommendation of the president with regard to the building site and expan- 
sion fund, that he would accompany members of the board of trustees in calls upon the 
subscribers to that fund to arrange for the transference of such funds to the general 
expense of the university, was adopted. 

On March 16, 1910, at a joint meeting of the executive and finance 
committees (see Exhibit E), it was decided to send a letter to each 
subscriber (see Exhibit F) and follow the letter with a personal 
interview, to obtain consent to use half the fund for building site and 
half for current expenses. 

The $35,568.18 raised from subscriptions, together with the $200,000 
received February 16, 1907, from the sale of Van Ness Park, was 
used as follows: 

General statement, building, site, and enlargement fund. 

receipts. 

Subscriptions $35, 568. 18 

Sale of Van Ness property 200, 000. 00 

Interest 435. 59 

Total 236,003.77 

disbursements. 

M. Carrol, salary 999. 96 

C. B. Newcomer, salary 500. 00 

G. C. Peck, salary 235. 49 

Clerks, salary ■. 249. 00 

R. D. Harlan: 

Salary to March 1, 1910 $7, 291. 55 

Commissions 920. 00 

Expenses 3, 389. 00 

11. 600. 55 

Postage 532. 60 

Printing 990. 73 

Stationery 9. 60 

Miscellaneous items 924. 15 

1710 N street 8, 500. 00 

Loans to general expenses 137, 737. 70 

Investments 73, 546. 78 

Balance in bank 177.-21 



Total 236, 003. 77 

We have examined the vouchers for payments out of these funds 
and find them properly itemized, with certain exceptions, as to which 
explanations have been made. 

Dr. Richard D. Harlan was appointed on April 1, 1907, as the 
special representative of the university. In the printed literature 

45824—10 2 



18 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

his name appears as special representative of the so-called "George 
Washington University Movement." It is stated that his duties are 
to assist the president in enlarging and developing the institution. 

In addition to his other work in connection with the development 
of the university, Doctor Harlan has secured $2,770 for the building, 
site, and enlargement fund, and the following subscriptions to the 
sustentation fund for the college of the political sciences, payable in 
annual installments during a period ending with 1912: 

Unconditional subscriptions |37, 230 

Subscriptions conditioned on raising $125,000 9, 000 



46, 230 

Of this sum ?17.230 has been received in cash, the balance of the unconditional sub- 
scriptions being payable during the years 1910, 1911, and 1912. 

Doctor Harlan's total compensation and expenses have been paid out of the building, 
site, and enlargement fund, while the money raised by him, with the exception of the 
$2,770 above mentioned, has gone to the college of the political sciences. Since 
March 1, 1910, his salary has been paid out of the general-expense account, the bank 
balance of the building, site, and enlargement fund having been exhausted. The 
details of Doctor Harlan's appointment are shown in the letters, copies of which are 
hereto annexed marked Exhibits "G," "H," and "Ml." 

The miscellaneous items are for the most part of small amounts, but $689.85 was for 
expenses for dinner and luncheons at hotels, incident to the launching of the building- 
site movement. 

The item "1710 N street $8,500" is included with $7,500 paid from trust funds and 
is dealt with elsewhere in this report. 

Loans to general expense and investments are included in the general statement of 
the Corcoran and other trust funds. 

C. W. NEEDHAM HOUSE, 1710 N STREET. 

This house was purchased under the following circumstances: Doctor Needham 
signed an agreement with Westcott & Story on November 10, 1906, to purchase the 
house for $5,500 cash, subject to an existing encumbrance of $5,500. Five hundred 
dollars cash on account of the purchase money was paid out of the trust funds at the 
time of signing the agreement. 

President Needham reported the purchase to the board of trustees on November 
14, 1906, and his action was approved. (See Exhibit M2.) The sale was perfected 
November 28, 1906, and the balance of $5,000 paid and title taken in the name of 
the treasurer as trustee for the university. Repairs and alterations to the house were 
made costing $9,266.46. In addition thereto there was paid for interest and taxes 
$250.87, furniture $487, and cash paid to Doctor Needham $495.67. A statem,ent of 
these expenditures is hereto attached marked "Exhibit N." 

The explanation of this cash payment to Doctor Needham is that he had paid sun- 
dry small bills for repairs "amounting to about that sum," and the am^ount was made 
$495.67 to make the investment stand the university exactly $16,000. This payment 
was made June 14, 1907. The trustees on June 5 had authorized the investment by 
the executive committee of $16,000 in the N street house. (See Exhibit M2.) 

On December 17, 1907, the president offered, in view of the ma- 
turity of the mortgage of $5,500, that he would take title to the house, 
pay off the mortgage of $5,500 out of his own funds, and ^ive the 
university his own note and mortgage for $16,000, payable in three 
years at 4 per cent. 

This offer was accepted by the executive committee. (See ex- 
tracts from records of executive committee hereto attached, marked 
"Exhibit O.") 

This arrangement was carried out; Charles Yv^. Holmes, the treas- 
urer, who held title as trustee, conveyed the property to Charles W. 
Needham, and Doctor Needham paid off the mortgage of $5,500 and 
gave a note properly secured by a trust deed on the property for the 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 19 

$16,000. By this action the university secured a first hen on the 
house for $16,000 and Doctor Needham received the equity for his 
$5,500. Prior to this the university held the equity subject to a 
first mortgage of $5,500. 

ADMIRAL POWELL HOUSE, 1707 I STREET. 

This house was devised to the university by the late Admiral 
Levin M. Powell by his will, to be held in perpetual trust by the 
university, and the net proceeds from its annual rental to be applied 
to the creation of free scholarships for the benefit of students pro- 
posing to enter the Naval Academy at Annapolis, or to embark in 
the service of the merchant marine. 

The house is rented at $150 per month and the income is carried 
into the general fund. (See Exhibit E, resolution of executive com- 
mittee.) 

In the statement of the liabilities of the general fund is ir eluded 
"due to banks $61,500" standing unsecured, but the record of the 
trustees shows they purposed to hold as collateral for loans not to 
exceed $70,000, the equity in the lots at the corner of FifteentJi and 
H streets, the lots at 1325 to 1335 H street, over and above the 
mortgage of $450,000, held by the Fidelity Trust Company of Phila- 
delphia, and also the lots remaining of the congressional grant and 
the lot remaining of the Burgdorf lots which belonged to the Corcoran 
endowment fund. A copy of such a resolution was delivered to each 
bank from whom they borrowed, and a copy of same is attached 
hereto and marked "Exhibit P." 

The early history of and the transactions relating to the various 
endowment funds prior to December 31, 1899, and the detailed state- 
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the university in its various 
departments, and all other matters not covered by this report, will be 
incorporated in our final report. 
Respectfully, 

Nelson B. Keysor, 
Sherrill Smith, 

Special BanJc Accountants. 



Exhibit A. 



Cash receipts and disbursements, -principal of Corcoran and other trust and endoicment 

funds. 

RECEIPTS. 

Dec. 31, 1899. Cash balance Corcoran fund $97. 74 

Cash balance, Fitch fund 250. 67 

Feb. 1, 1900. Borrowed from Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. 40, 000. 00 

May 7, 1900. McLachlen & White note paid 3, 000. 00 

Sept. 26, 1900. Account Fitch fund 72. 00 

Sept. 26,1901. Do 81.94 

1901. Received principal Thos. F. Walsh prize fund 300. 00 

Mar. 28, 1902. Net proceeds of sale of 1719 S street 12, 570. 18 

Mar. 6,1902. J. H. Lane note paid 2,400.00 

Apr. 11, 1902. J. B. Wimer note paid 2, 000. 00 

Do 5, 000. 00 

Do 3, 000. 00 



20 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Apr. 22, 1902. Account Fitch fund |36. 00 

Received from American Security and Trust Company, 
legacy M. Marian Cutter, to establish prize for excel- 
lence in English (E . K. Cutter prize) 1, 000. 00 

Nov. 2, 1902. Proceeds E. S. Parker notes 8, 000. 00 

Nov. 29, 1902. Proceeds Bm-gdorf lot sold 716. 41 

Aug. 31,1903. Do 7,068.01 

Nov. 4, 1903. Borrowed from Riggs National Bank on Van Ness Park. . 100, 000. 00 
Borrowed from Washington Loan and Trust Company on 

Columbian Building (to pay for Van Ness Park) 62, 000. 00 

Jan. 4,1904. Proceeds 113,000 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal bonds sold. 3,510.00 

Mar. 4, 1904. Proceeds sale Burgdorf lots 4, 471. 94 

May 4, 1904. Proceeds J. W. McLachlen note paid 1, 200. 00 

Jan. 30, 1905. Proceeds sale Burgdorf lots 1, 847. 50 

June 30, 1905. Received accounfsale 903 M street 200. 00 

July 22, 1905. Received balance sale 903 M street 5, 600. 00 

Oct. 16, 1905. Received in settlement of Eleanor J. Cooper bequest for 

medical endowment 8, 750. 00 

Dec. 7, 1905. Received net proceeds sale of Columbian 

Building $159, 200. 01 

Less mortgage note assumed by purchaser . . 50, 000. 00 

109, 200. 01 

Feb. 9,1906. Received liquidating dividend, Quinsigamond National 

Bank 500. 00 

May 1,1906. Do 200.00 

June 28, 1906. Received from National Park Seminary for endowment 

of hospital bed 500. 00 

Nov. 7, 1906. Received Sisters of Visitation note paid 1, 000. 00 

Feb. 20, 1907. Received sale of American Institute of Architects loan.. 8,000.00 

May 17, 1907. Received proceeds sale of Van Ness Park 200, 000. 00 

June 15, 1907. Received J. W. Hogg note sold 1, 875. 00 

June 20, 1907. Received E. M. Power note sold 10, 000. 00 

Dec. 30, 1907. Received sale $16,000 participation Memphis Union Sta- 
tion loan 15, 921. 18 

Mar. 27, 1908. Received sale $9,000 participation Memphis Union Sta- 
tion loan 9, 000. 00 

Apr. 29, 1908. Received sale $15,000 participation Memphis Union Sta- 
tion loan 15, 000. 00 

May 11, 1908. Received sale Jesse C. Love note 1, 000. 00 

May 28, 1908. Received sale $10,000 participation, Memphis Union Sta- 
tion loan 10, 212. 55 

Aug. 31, 1908. Received sale Goldman note 1, 000. 00 

Dec. 3, 1908. Received sale $6,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 

refunding 4 per cent bonds 5, 392. 50 

Dec. 21, 1908. Received H. S. Crocker notes paid 2, 000. 00 

Dec. 23, 1908. Received sale $15,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 

collateral 4 per cent bonds 11, 250. 00 

Apr. 1, 1909. Received bequest of Dr. John Odronaux and interest 4, 792. 97 

Mar. 12, 1910. Received sale of $5,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 

5 per cent bonds 5, 125. 00 

Contribution to building, site, and enlargement fund . 35, 568. 18 

Interest on same 435. 59 



721, 145. 37 

EXPENDITURES. 

Feb. 1, 1900. Cash paid National Metropolitan Bank account notes $40, 000. 00 

May 7, 1900. Cash paid National Metropolitan Bank. 3, 000. 00 

1901. Invested in 30 shares of Washington Sanitary Improve- 
ment Company 300. 00 

Mar. 5, 1902. National Metropolitan Bank 3, 661. 50 

2 prizes Fitch fund 100. 00 

Apr. 12, 1902. Invested in J. M. Crocker note 1, 000. 00 

Do 1, 000. 00 

Invested in E. S. Parker note 5,000.00 

Do 3, 000. 00 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 21 

Apr. 24, 1902. Invested in 100 shares Washington Sanitary Improve- 
ment Company 11, 000. 00 

Jan. 10,1903. Invested in 8 shares American Institute of Architects 

loan 8, 000. 00 

Mar. 5, 1903. Paid account Van Ness Park 1, 000. 00 

Aug. 1, 1903. Paid note of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. . . 40, 000. 00 

Dec, 1903. Paid balance purchase money Van Ness Park 161, 043. 21 

May 12, 1904. Invested in note of Sisters of Visitation 1, 000. 00 

Feb. 14,1905. Invested in 4 shares Pennsylvania Telephone Company 

stock 200. 00 

May 6, 1905. Paid account of mortgage notes on Columbian building. . 12, 000. 00 
Nov. 2, 1905. Paid Washington Loan and Trust Company for 5,000 

Rock Island Railway 5 per cent bonds 4, 618. 75 

Paid Washington Loan and Trust Company for 5,000 

Rock Island Railway 4 per cent bonds 4, 118. 75 

Dec. 7, 1905. Paid Riggs National Bank mortgage notes on Van Ness 

Park 100, 000. 00 

Nov. 7, 1906. Im^ested in Jesse C. Love note 1, 000. 00 

Nov. 10, 1906. Paid Westcott & Storey, on account of purchase 1710 N 

street 500. 00 

Feb. 20, 1907. To general fund for balance purchase money 

1710 N street $5, 000. 00 

Cash paid C. S. Denham on account alterations 

1710 N street 2, 000. 00 

7, 000. 00 

Feb. 20, 1907. Invested in Goldman note 1, 000. 00 

June 14, 1907. Paid C. W. Needham, account 1710 N street 495. 67 

June 21, 1907. Paid contractor, etc., account 1710 N street 7, 608. 33 

July 6, 1907. Invested in $50,000 participation in loan to Memphis 

Union Station 49, 561. 27 

July 8,1907. Invested in $30,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 

Railway refunding 4 per cent bonds 26, 351. 67 

Aug. 16,1907. Paid Zellers, steam-heating apparatus, 1710 N street 396.00 

Oct. 16,1907. Invested in $15,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 

collateral trust 4 per cent bonds 9, 770. 11 

Sept. 2, 1909. Invested in $5,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific col- 
lateral 4 per cent bonds 4, 060. 97 

May 25, 1910. Invested in mortgage note of Thomas R. Marshall 5, 000. 00 

May 25, 1910. Invested in mortgage note of Lewis Spectre 200. 00 

502, 986. 23 

EXPENDITURES BUILDING, SITE, AND ENLARGEMENT FUND. 

Salaries: 

Mitchell Carroll * 999. 96 

C . B . Newcomer 500. 00 

G. C. Peck 235. 49 

Miscellaneous clerks 249. 00 

R. D. Harlan 7, 291. 55 

Extra salary or commission, R. D. Harlan.. 920. 00 

Expenses, R. D. Harlan 3, 389. 00 

Postage 532.60 

Printing 990.73 

Stationery 9. 60 

Miscellaneous 924. 15 

519, 028. 31 



Total receipts 721, 145. 37 

Total payments 519, 028. 31 

Balance 202, 117. 06 



22 GEORGE WASIillSrGTOlSr UNIVERSITY. 

Exhibit B. 

Transfers from Corcoran endowment and other trust funds to general expense account. 

Feb. 28, 1902. Proceeds sale of 1719 S street, $12,570.18 net sale ($9,118.83 

to Corcoran endowment fund) $3, 451. 35 

Mar. 5,1902. Loan to general expense, "balance of above" and 197.74 

cash balance 5, 555. 07 

Mar. 7,1902. Loan to general expense, "proceeds of Lane note" 2,400.00 

Aug. 31, 1902. Transferred to general expense, W. E. Fitch prize cash 

balance 340. 61 

Nov. 29, 1902. Transferred to general expense, sale of one Burgdorf lot 

No. 101 : 716. 41 

Dec. 27,1902. Loan to general expense, Columbian building "net pro- 
ceeds " 9, 200. 01 

Loan to general expense, balance Cooper endowment ... 12. 50 

Jan. 4, 1904. Transfer to general expense, sale of Chesapeake and Ohio 

bonds 3, 510. 00 

Mar. 4,1904. Transfer to general expense, Burgdorf lots Nos. 116-120... 4,471.94 
Jan. 30, 1905. Transfer to general expense, Burgdorf sale Nos. 123-124. . . 1, 847. 50 

June 30,1905. Transfer to general expense, account 903 M street 200.00 

July 22, 1905. Transfer to general expense, balance 903 M street 5, 600. 00 

July 9, 1907. Amount returned by National City Bank of New York, 
being difference between amount sent ($50,000) and 
actual cost of Memphis Union Station certificate (cred- 
ited to Corcoran endowment income account) 438. 73 

Dec. 30, 1907. Loan to general expense, proceeds sale of $16,000 Mem- 
phis Union Station 15, 921. 18 

Mar. 27, 1908. Loan to general expense, proceeds sale of $9,000 Mem- 
phis Union Station 9, 000. 00 

Apr. 29, 1908. Loan to general expense, proceeds sale of |15,000 Mem- 
phis Union Station 15, 000. 00 

May 28, 1908. Loan to general expense, proceeds sale of $10,000 Mem- 
phis Union Station 10, 212. 55 

Aug. 31,1908. Loan to general expense, proceeds Love & Goldman notes. 2,000.00 
Dec. 3, 1908. Loan to general expense, |6,000 Rock Island Railway 4 

per cent bonds 5, 392. 50 

Dec. 23, 1908. Loan to general expense, $15,000 Rock Island Railway 

collateral trust 4 per cent bonds 11, 250. 00 

Mar. 23, 1909. Loan to general expense, proceeds Crocker notes 2, 000. 00 

Sept. 3, 1909. Transfer to general expense, Ordronaux endowment 732. 00 

Aug. 31, 1903. Transfer to general expense, sale of Burgdorf lots Nos. 95 

to 100 7, 068. 01 

May 16, 1907. Profits on Van Ness Park to general expense 30, 000. 00 

Aug. 16, 1907. Interest on building site and enlargement to 

general expense $114. 73 

Mar. 16,1908. Do 145.98 

Aug. 31,1908. Do 22.45 

283. 16 



Apr. 1, 1907. Loans to general expense 1, 000. 00 

June 14,1907. Do $20,000.00 

Do 20,000.00 

Do 7,000.00 

Do 21,000.00 

68,000.00 

Do 10, 000. 00 

Do 10, 000. 00 

Do 454. 54 

Do 2, 000. 00 

Do 1, 000. 00 

Do 2, 000. 00 

Do 2, 000. 00 

Do 6, 000. 00 

Do 4, 000. 00 

Do 2, 000. 00 

Do 2, 000. 00 

Do 2, 800. 00 

Do 2, 000. 00 

115, 254. 54 



July 


1, 1907 


Aug. 


1, 1907. 


Aug. 


16, 1907. 


Aug. 


31, 1907. 


Sept. 


3,1907. 


Dec. 


2,1907. 


Aug. 


3, 1908. 


Dec. 


1, 1908. 


Dec. 


2, 1908. 


Dec. 


2, 1909. 


Jan. 


4, 1910. 



GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 23 

Less loans returned: 

Dec . 2 $2, 000. 00 

Dec. 27 2, 000. 00 

May 18 1 , 000. 00 

Dec. 4 2, 000. 00 

Dec . 29 800. 00 

$7,800.00 

1107, 454. 54 



Less : 
Dec. — , 1903. Amount paid for Van Ness Park in excess of 

loans amounting to |162,000 43. 21 

May 6, 1905. Paid from general expense on account of 

mortgage note on Columbian building 12, 000. 00 

Feb. 1, 1903. Paid note of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance 

Company 40, 000. 00 



254, 058. 06 



52, 043. 21 



202, 014. 85 



Exhibit C. 

[Extract from trustees' records, vol. 2, p. 55.] 

April 23, 1841. 

The following promissory notes in the hands of the treasurer: * * * [list of 
notes aggregating] 1630.71. 

The following notes, which have been taken for the sale of city lots, are in treas- 
urer's possession, and when paid the proceeds will be invested for the faculty fund: 
* * * [list of notes aggregating] $4,187.39. 

[Extract from trustees' records, vol. 2, p. 56.] 

April 23, 1841. 

List of city lots remaining unsold and their estimated value: * * * [list of 
lots] * * * Total value, $5,858. 

From the foregoing it will appear that, after the payment of the debts, the property 
of the college remaining from the city lots will be about $10,000, which, under the 
act of Congress by which the grant was made, must be invested as a permanent fund 
to aid in support of the faculty. 



Exhibit D. 

[Record of the meeting of the board of trustees, May 7, 1908. See record book, vol. 6, p. 375.] 

Report of the finan'ce committee was presented and is as follows: 

May 2, 1908. 
To the Board op Trustees of 

The George Washington University. 
Gentlemen: Your finance committee begs to submit the following report in con- 
nection with the budget for the year 1908-9, which will be presented by the presi- 
dent of the university. 

At the expiration of the present financial year, viz, August 31, 1908, we find the 
university's resources available for meeting running expenses, will be as follows: 

Mortgages, notes $20, 000. 00 

Railway bonds (market value) 14, 070. 00 

Total balance Corcoran fund $34, 070. 00 

Unincutabered real estate of an estimated value of 48, 571. 00 

Total 82, 641. 00 

Less: 

Unpaid bills August 31, 1908 $16,384.00 

Sum borrowed from building, site, and endowment fund . . 13, 501. 32 

^ 29,885.32 

Net available 52, 755. 68 



24 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

The budget presented by the president and treasurer for the year 1908-9 

shows a deficiency of |69, 296. 35 

Leaving to be found a sum of 16, 540. 67 

after all liquid cash and unincumbered real estate has been disposed of. 

The president's report gives tables showing past deficiencies and their causes and 
the basis of the calculations for the coming year. 

_ The president estimates an equity of $550,000 in the university's mortgaged proper- 
ties. It is doubtful, under the present circumstances, whether any money can be 
raised on these equities without selling the entire property. 

The condition of the univertity's finances, as shown above, is most grave and demands 
the earnest consideration of each and all of its trustees. 
Respectfully submitted. 

Hennen Jennings. 
H. C. Perkins. 
John Joy Edson. 



Exhibit E. 
[Joint meeting of tlie executive committee and the finance committee, board of trustees. 

Wednesday, March 6, 1910. 

Pursuant to the request of the president of the university, the executive and finance 
committees of the board of trustees met in the office of the president Wednesday, 
March 16, 1910, at 2.30 in the afternoon. 

There were present the president of the university, Mr. Macfarland, chairman, pre- 
siding; Mr. Lamer, Mr. Snow, Mr. Perkins, and Mr. Lisner, the treasurer of the uni- 
versity, and the secretary of the university. 

The president stated the purpose of the meeting to be the preparation of a letter by 
the executive committee which should embody the conclusions reached by the 
board of trustees at the meeting March 14, 1910, regarding the subscriptions to the 
building, site, and expansion fund. 

Considerable discussion arose as to the wisdom of sending such letter to the sub- 
scribers instead of personal interview. It was finally thought advisable to send a 
letter and follow it by a personal interview. 

On motion of Mr. Snow the following resolution was adopted : 

' ^Resolved, That the secretary be directed to send a letter in the following form to all 
subscribers to the building, site, and expansion fund who are not connected with the 
university as trustees, metabers of faculty, or students, and who have not yet paid 
their subscriptions or who have not made subscriptions on other terms, which ought 
justly to be regarded as relieving these subscriptions, the secretary being authorized 
to vary this form of letter to suit the circumstances." 

The following form of letter as proposed by Mr. Snow was thereupon adopted, and 
it was decided that the sending out of the letters be done as quickly as possible, and 
extra office help was authorized for this purpose. (Copy letter. See Exhibit F.) 

It was suggested by Mr. Lisner that as far as possible members of the board by twos 
should endeavor to divide up the list of large subscribers and see them as quickly 
as possible, in order that if their consent be gained to the application of their sub- 
scriptions to current expenses that the sum so procured might be used to meet the 
requirements of the treasurer's office on April 1. 

The following resolution regarding the Powell scholarship fund proposed by Mr. 
Snow was then adopted: 

Resolved, That President Needham, Mr. Mattingly, and Mr. Snow be appointed a 
committee to report the facts concerning the Powell scholarship fund, and, if possible, 
also a plan for making some permanent arrangement concerning the use of this fund 
for the purposes specified by the donor, said committee to report to the executive 
committee, or in case the board of trustees shall meet before the executive committee, 
to the board of trustees. 

No further business appearing, the committees adjourned at 4 o'clock. 

H. C. Dayis, Secretary of the University. 

The minutes of the joint meeting of the executive committee and the finance com- 
mittee March 16, 1910, were read and on motion approved at a meeting of the executive 
committee May 10, 1910. 

H. C. Davis, Secretary. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 25 

Exhibit F. 

The George Washington University, 

Office of the Secretary, 
Washington, D. C, March 17, 1910. 
Dear Sir: By direction of the executive committee of the board of trustees I beg 
to call your attention to your subscription for university purposes and to the inter- 
pretation thereof by the board of trustees. The subscription reads as follows: 

"The George Washington University, 

(Give date). 
" To secure the sum of $400,000 to be applied by the trustees toward the purchase 
of grounds and buildings, and the enlargement of the educational work, and in con- 
sideration of the subscriptions of others, I will pay to the George Washington Uni- 
versity dollars in five equal installments, the first installment to be paid on 

the 1st day of July, 1907, the remaining installments payable respectively on the 1st 
day of July of each succeeding year until all installments are paid. Or will pay in 

full on . 

"(Signed) ." 

Upon this subscription you haA'e paid dollars. 

At a meeting of the board of trustees of the university held on Monday evening last, 
March 14, it was determined, after full discussion, that a just interpretation of this 
subscription is as follows: 

1. That the subscriptions made on the above form were not conditional on the 
raising of $400,000 or any other definite sum. 

2. That the amount paid on ,such subscriptions should be carried, one-half to the 
building and site fund, the principal to be kept intact and the income to accumulate 
until new buildings or a new site are determined upon; and that the remaining one- 
half should be carried to current expenses and applied to enlarge the educational 
work of the university. 

These conclusions were reached on the following grounds : 

1. That, though when the subscriptions were made a particular site was under dis- 
cussion, it was the understanding of all concerned that other sites and other buildings 
than those then proposed might be finally decided upon by the trustees. 

2. There were two committees, one of which was attempting to raise a fund of 
$200,000 for buildings and site, and the other to raise a fund of $200,000 for current 
expenses for the enlargement of the educational work. These two committees united 
their efforts and prepared the form of subscription which you signed. 

I am also instructed by the executive committee to say that in view of the fact 
that the maintenance of the university on the present standard requires a greater sum 
for annual current expenses than the amount of the annual receipts, it would be of 
great benefit to the university if you would change your present subscription so as to 

subscribe the same amount, ■ dollars, payable in three annual installments, to 

be used to meet the expected deficit for the current year and for the next two years, 
your present subscription of course to be canceled upon receipt of such new sub- 
scription. 

I am further instructed to say that it is expected that a member of the board of 
trustees or an officer of the university will call upon you in regard to this matter. 
Very respectfully, 

■ ' \ > 

Secretary of the University . 



Exhibit G. 

[Copy of a copy of a letter from Chas. W. Needham to R. D. Harlan. Original copy in " Letters B.— Execu- 
tive committee and board of trustees, March 7, 1905, to — ," p. 287.] 

March 25, 1907. 

Dear Doctor Harlan: You have already learned something of the comprehensive 
plans that have been formed by the trustees and faculties and friends of the George 
Washington University, looking toward the early realization of the statesmanlike 
ideal for a great national university at the capital of the nation which was placed 
before the American people by George Washington himself in his last will and testa- 
ment. 

To do this we must have a new, ample, and commanding site; suitable buildings; 
and a munificent endowment. It has already been proved that there is among the 



26 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 

citizens of the capital sufficient public spirit to provide a splendid site for an institu- 
tion that is trying to show itself worthy of bearing the illustrious name of Washington. 

But this is far more than a local enterprise, and this leads me, on behalf of our 
trustees, to make a suggestion which I hope will meet with your approval; it is that 
you join with us in bringing to the attention of patriotic men and women throughout 
the land the importance of developing, at the capital of the nation, a truly, national 
university. Will you not join us in helping to bring such an inspiring plan to the 
attention of the American people? 

I have been glad to learn that you expect to remain in the work of education; but 
while sojourning temporarily in Washington could you possibly perform a greater and 
more far-reaching service to education than by exerting, for a time, the best efforts 
in your power in helping to accomplish the large ends we have in view for the George 
Washington University? With the valuable experience you have had in college 
work and the knowledge you have acquired of the educational needs of the American 
people, and your wide acquaintance in different parts of the country, we believe that 
you can be of great assistance to us. 

I make this suggestion the more readily because your distinguished father so many 
years has been connected with the law department of our university and has the 
success of the present movement much at heart. 

Hoping to hear favorably from you, I am. 

Sincerely yours, ■ Chas. W. Needham. 

Rev. RiCHARDN D. Harla, D. D. 



Exhibit H. 

[Copy of a letter written by Chas.W.Needham to Rev. R. D. Harlan, D. D. Original copy in "Letters" 
Executive committee and b card of trustees, March 7, 1905, to B. — ] 

April 4, 1907. 

Dear Doctor Harlan: I am pleased to inform you that at the meeting of the 
executive committee you were appointed to represent the university movement 
in soliciting funds for the university, pursuant to my former letter of appointment 
of March 25, and your compensation was fixed at the rate of twenty-five hundred 
dollars per annum, beginning April 1, 1907, together with your traveling expenses, 
accounts to be approved by the treasurer, and in addition sums equal to the following 
percentages upon moneys collected by you and paid in to the treasurer as a result 
of your personal canvass and efforts: 

Five (5) per cent upon all sums paid in up to one hundred thousand (100,000) 
dollars; four (4) per cent upon all sums paid in above one hundred thousand (100,000) 
up to one million (1,000,000) dollars, and two (2) per cent upon all sums above one 
million dollars; percentages at the above rates to be paid as m-oneys are received by 
the treasurer of the university. 

As you requested, this appointment is to be considered as temporary and may be 
concluded by either party upon reasonable and due notice. 

I wish to say again that it is a very great pleasure to have you associated in this 
work. 

Sincerely, yours, Chas. W. Needham. 

Rev. Richard D. Harlan, D. D. 



Exhibit Ml. 

[Copy of a copy of a letter from Clias. W. Needham to R. D. Harlan. Original copy in " Letters B. Execu- 
tive committee and board of trustees, March 7, 1905, to ," p. 463.] 

November 13, 1908. 
Dear Doctor Harlan: I am pleased to inform, you that at the meeting of the 
board of trustees Tuesday evening your letter to me, dated November 9, which I 
referred to the committee of which Mr. Macfarland is chairman, was favorably reported 
to the bodrd by the committee and the suggestions made in your letter were adopted 
by the board. This, therefore, modifies the present arrangement as follows: 

(1) Your engagement with the university to continue until August 31, 1909. 

(2) That if the board desires to continue your connection with the university after 
August 31, 1909, it will make a proposition to you on or before April 1 next. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 27 

(3) The payments to be made you hereafter, will be on a salary basis, the salary to 
be fixed from time to time by the executive committee so as to cover the salary now 
beino- paid you and an additional amount equal to 5 per cent upon all sums paid in 
to the treasurer up to $100,000, 4 per cent upon all sums paid in above $100,000 up to 
11,000,000, and 2 per cent upon all sums above $1,000,000, which you would have 
been entitled to under an arrangement stated in my letter to you of April 4, 1907. 

It gives me pleasure to have this matter so satisfactorily arranged, and I trust that 
you may soon begin to reap a large harvest from your excellent sowing. 
Sincerely, yoms, 

Chas. W. Needham. 

Dr. Richard D. Harlan. 



Exhibit M 2. 

[Extract from president's report to the board of trustees, November 14, 1906, as found in record of 

trustees, vol. 6, p. 295.] 

(a) President's house. — Owing to the increase in rents it has been exceedingly diffi- 
cult for the president to find a suitable house near the university where members of 
the faculty and friends of the university could meet evenings — a matter of considerable 
importance to our work. Recently a modest house on N street, No. 1710, was offered 
for sale to close an estate at |12,000. The lot is 19 by 96 feet, the house is 19 by 55 feet, 
three stories high. A change in the front entrance will give an extra room and enlarge 
the dining room. This, with repairs and decoration necessary, may cost |2,000. The 
property is encumbered for $5,500, bearing 4^ per cent interest. Last week the owner 
offered to take $11,000, if accepted at once. 

The treasurer and assistant treasurer looked the property over with me and concluded 
that it was perfectly safe to put some of the university investment funds into the prop- 
erty, the president to occupy and pay the interest thereon. We therefore contracted 
for the house at $11,000, to be conveyed to the treasurer and occupied by the presi- 
dent, the president to pay out of his salary the taxes, insurance, and 5 per cent inter- 
est upon the funds so invested. As the property is in a very desirable location, it is 
believed by all who have examined it that when the changes and repairs are made as 
proposed it would readily sell for $15,000, thus making it a perfectly safe investment. 

The income being assured the whole arrangement will be of mutual benefit to all 
concerned. I ask your approval of this action. 

(Vol. 6, p. 298, same date, trustees approve above action.) 

[Extract from minutes of trustee's meeting June 5, 1907, as found in record of trustees, vol. 6, p. 340.] 

(12) On motion of Mr. Levering it was ordered that the executive committee be 
authorized, if upon investigation it was deemed proper and advisable, to use a portion 
of the proceeds of the sale of Van Ness Park for the floating debt of the university and 
to invest the balance, $16,000, in 1710 N street at 4 per cent, and the remainder in 
income-paying securities, it being understood that when the university is ready to 
purchase a site said fund held for that purpose would be restored upon the credit of the 
university, the purpose being to save the interest during the time the fund was not 
required to purchase a site. 

(Executive committee for 1907 consisted of the following: Messrs. Woodward, 
Greene, Mattingly, Gallaudet, Edson, Walcott, Larner, Jennings, and Perkins.) 



Exhibit N. 
Itemized expenses connected ivith No. 1710 N street (C. W. Needham' s house). 

1906. 

Dec. 12. Interest, Riggs National Bank $123. 75 

1907. 

Mar. 1. Repairs, C. S. Denham 2,000.00 

Mar. 5. Architect fee, P. Ash 150.00 

Mar. 19. Range, Dodson & Hodgson 42. 50 

Apr. 19. Light bulbs, Potomac Electric Power Company 13. 50 

Apr. 25. Fixtures, The Enos Company 170. 80 

Apr. 27. Heating, Zellers & Co 500.00 



28 



GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 



1907, 
May 
May- 



June 
June 



Aus. 



9. Decorating, G. L. Temple |681. 02 

10. Taxes, collector of taxes 101. 70 

20. Cleaning, W. F. Andrews 21. 71 

Gas stove, E. F. Brooks Company 3. 40 

Gardener, W. S. Reeves 45. 00 

8. Interest, Riggs National Bank 123. 75 

Architect fee, P. Ash 150. 00 

21. Furniture, W. B. Moses & Sons 166. 14 

Building, estate of C. S. Denham 5,413.39 

16. Heating, Zellers & Co 396. 00 

Total 10, 102. 66 

House No. 1710 N street. 



1906. 
Nov. 16. Account purchase. 1500.00 
Nov. 28. Balance purchase- 5,000.00 

1907. 
June 14. C. W. Needham, 

account equity.. 495.67 
Aug. 16. Total expenses.... 10,102.66 



16, 098. 33 



1906. 
Dec. 12. Real Estate Title 

Company $98.33 

Equity in house... 16, 000. 00 



16, 098. 33 



Exhibit 0. 
[Extract from records of executive committee December 17, 1907.] 

A special meeting of the executive committee was held Tuesday December 17, 1907, 
at 4.30 p. m. Present: The president, Mr. Woodward, in the chair; Doctor Greene, 
Doctor Gallaudet, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Perkins, Messrs. Mattingly and Larner. 

The president called attention to the maturity of a mortgage of $5,500 upon the house 
and lot known as 1710 N street, and' suggested that inasmuch as the university was not 
in funds to pay the mortgage he would, if satisfactory to the committee, take the house 
and pay off the encumbrance and give the university a note and mortgage for $16,000, 
payable on or before three years at 4 per cent, the same interest now paid for the use 
of the house. 

Thereupon, on motion of Mr. Perkins, the following resolution was unanimously 
adopted: 

^'Resolved, That in consideration of the payment by Chas. W. Needham of the first 
mortgage of $5,500 upon the house and lot known as 1710 N street, part of lot 27 in A. 
Jardin, Geo. H. Williams, and Kate A. Williams subdivision of square 159, 19 by 95.87 
feet and the execution by him of a note for $16,000 to his order, indorsed to the uni- 
versity and drawing interest at 4 per cent per annum, payable on or before three 
years from date and secured by a first mortgage upon said house and lot, Charles W. 
Holmes, treasurer, is hereby directed to convey said house and lot to Chas. W. Need- 
ham." 



Exhibit "P." 

Whereas, in order to pay the current expenses of the university until April 1, 1910, 
it will be necessary to negotiate the promissory notes of the university for sums aggre- 
gating $70,000, now therefore. 

Resolved, 1. That the president and treasurer are hereby authorized to execute and 
negotiate from time to time during the period aforesaid to any national bank or trust 
company, the promissory notes of the university in denominations of $5,000 and 
$10,000 each, payable, with interest, ninety days from their respective dates, and said 
notes may be renewed for further like periods; the aggregate amount of the notes so 
negotiated not to exceed at any one time the sum of $70,000. The proceeds of said 
notes when so negotiated shall be deposited to the credit of the university and be used 
for current expenses, including the payment of interest. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 29 

2. If it is necessary for the president to indorse said negotiable paper, to save and 
keep him harmless and to secure the payment of said notes when issued, the board of 
trustees of the George Washington University does hereby declare and make the fol- 
lowing declaration of trust; that is to say, the board hold in trust for the payment of 
said notes, and each and every one thereof, the following described real estate situate 
in the District of Columbia: 

Corner Fifteenth and H streets, lots 9, 10, 11, and part 12, square 222, containing 
20,210 square feet. 

1325 to 1335 H street, subdivisions 33 and 34 and of subdivisions 5 and 6, square 250, 
containing 24,536 square feet. 

The two foregoing-described properties being incumbered with a trust of |450,000, 
due May 2, 1910. 

Unimproved lots: Lot 9, square 16; lots 10, 12, 13, 8, square 13; lot 5, square 83; 
lot 8, square 23; lot 2, square west of 23; lot 5, square 87; lot 2, square 88; lot 148, 
square 672, containing 143,006 square feet, unincumbered. 

And the board further declares that no other debt or obligation shall be incurred 
until the said notes are fully paid or provided for; that said indebtedness so to be 
created shall become a lien upon said described property or properties and every part 
thereof, and the said lien may be enforced by any and all legal means and procedure 
for the enforcement of equitable liens. 

3. That the general policy of making this institution a true university with uni- 
versity standards and methods of teaching as presented by the president is hereby 
approved and will be maintained during the next academic year in accordance with 
the plans of organization and expense this day adopted. 

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the resolution as adopted by 
the board of trustees. 
Attest: 

H. C. Davis, Secretary. 



The George Washington University, 

Office of the President, 
Washington, B.C., May 19, 1910. 
To the honorable The Attorney-General of the United States, 

Washington, D. C. 
Sir: In response to your letter of April 26, the president and board of trustees of the 
George Washington University beg to submit the following report with the detailed 
statements called for. These statements are marked and referred to in this report as 
exhibits and are preceded by a title-page of contents giving a summary of the several 
statements. 

To present the information called for in your letter, and in the resolution referred to, 
■in a clear and comprehensible form, it is essential that the organization of the univer- 
sity and the distribution of its courses of study in the several departments be explained. 
The university embraces: 

THE department OP ARTS AND SCIENCES. 

The faculty of graduate studies. 
The faculty of undergraduate studies: 

(a) The College of Arts and Sciences. 

(6) The College of Engineering and Mechanic Arts. 

(c) The College of the Political Sciences. 

(d) The Teachers' College. 

((') The Division of Architecture. 

THE PROFESSIONAL DEPARTMENTS. 

The department of law. 

The department of medicine. 

The department of dentistry. 

National College of Pharmacy. 

The College of Veterinary Medicine. 

The colleges of pharmacy and veterinary medicine are organized under the charter 
•of the university with independent boards of trustees (see charter handed you here- 
with, marked "1," pp. 23 and 24). 

All students are matriculated in the department or college where they expect to 
•do the major part of their work. This college has charge of the student and recom- 



30 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

mends him to the trustees of the university for his deoree. Each student, however, 
takes more or less of his work in other colleges and departments of the university. 
This is done in the interest of economy of administration and to prevent unnecessary 
duplication of courses in the university. Thus, for example, in the college of engi- 
neering and mechanic arts the technical courses only are given, and the student takes 
the general courses— mathematics, physics, English, geology, etc. — in the college of 
arts and sciences. In agricultural courses, chemistry and other general subjects are 
taken in the college of arts and sciences, and physiological chemistry, bacteriology, 
etc., are taken in the department of medicine. This arrangement gives each student 
in the university, wherever he may be registered, the benefit of all the courses offered 
in the university. 

You will observe, therefore, that to give the details of instruction, and facilities for 
instruction, in the colleges of mechanic arts, architecture, veterinary medicine, and 
pharmacy presents only a partial statement of the courses and facilities offered in the 
university to students of agriculture and the mechanic arts. We have therefore sub- 
mitted the full information, which your letter and the resolution calls for, by adding 
the facilities and courses of instruction in all departments of the university. We sub- 
mit herewith a copy of the last catalogue of the university, marked "2." Pages 76 
to 119 gives the courses of instruction in the department of arts and sciences. Pre- 
ceding this you will find the required courses in the several colleges in undergraduate 
work, and following the references made you will find the special courses given in the 
professional departments of the university. 

In determining what subjects and courses in the university would be entitled to 
receive the benefits of the Morrill acts, if extended to the District of Columbia and this 
university, we are guided by, and refer you to, the circular letter of the Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Education, herewith submitted, marked "3." 

With these explanations we beg to submit the following report with accompanying 
exhibits : 

- 1. Detailed statements of the equipment of the departments of engineering, archi- 
tecture, veterinary medicine and pharmacy are set forth in Exhibits A, B, C, and D. 
submitted herewith; and to complete the equipment in the subjects taught in the 
university, covered by the Morrill acts, there follows detailed statements of the 
equipment in other colleges and departments of the university, set forth in Exhibits 
E, F, G, H, I, and J. 

The values attached represent, as near as can be ascertained, the present value 
of the equipment, considering in all cases the length of time the article has been used. 

2. Exhibit K gives the class enrollment for the past three years in each of the 
subjects taught in the colleges of engineering, architecture, veterinary medicine, and 
pharmacy; and to complete the showing of the university, the class enrollments in 
other colleges and departments, in the subjects referred to, for the past three years, 
is set forth in Exhibit L. 

The college of veterinary medicine was organized two years ago, and therefore has 
only a two years' record. 

3. The salaries paid to individual professors in the colleges of engineering, archi- 
tecture, veterinary medicine and pharmacy are set forth in Exhibits M, N, 0, and P, 
and to complete the record as above explained the salaries paid to other professors 
in the university, teaching subjects covered by the Morrill acts, are set forth in Ex- 
hibits Q, R, S, t, U, V, and W. 

4. Exhibit X gives the laboratory fees called for. 

The total number of students enrolled in the university during the pi'esent aca- 
demic year, 1909-10, is as follows: 

Graduate studies 87 

Undergraduate studies 703 

Professional 610 

1, 400 
Duplicate names 15 

Total 1. 385 

The teaching staff in the university consists of 174 members, as follows: 

Professors ' 74 

Assistant professors 43 

Instructors, demonstrators, and assistants 57 

174 
Librarian and assistants 8 



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The number of candidates for degrees. this year, not yet passed by the faculties, will 
be approximately 200. 

Prior to 1902 the university consisted of a collection of night schools, with the excep- 
tion of Columbian College. Columbian College had a faculty of 11 professors, assistant 
professors, and instructors, with an enrollment of less than 90 students, and conducted 
its work in the daytime. The teaching staff were paid fixed salaries, the highest 
being $1,800. The same professors conducted a night college, known as the Cor- 
coran Scientific School, and for their services in this college received 75 per cent of 
all tuitions paid by the students attending the college; the university received 25 
per cent of the fees for the use of the building and facilities for instruction. The 
medical and dental courses were carried on in the evening by two faculties. The 
members received all of the tuitions, paid all of the expenses, and divided the net 
proceeds. In the law department fixed salaries were paid to the professors and 
instructors, but the work was conducted under the direction of the faculty. 

After many years of effort to secure financial aid for the university, organized as 
above set forth, it proved to be impossible to secure gifts of money for educational 
work so organized and conducted. 

There being a large annual deficit with no prospect of securing aid, it was deter- 
mined in 1902 to reorganize the university, bring all the work under the control and 
direction of the board of trustees and pay fixed salaries for all the work of instruction 
in all of the departments. It was also determined to put all of the work upon a day 
basis, commencing the work in the morning at 9 o'clock and closing the class room 
work at 6.30 in the afternoon. In order to serve a large body of students in Wash- 
ington employed by the Government and as secretaries to executive officers, Senators, 
and Congressmen, the courses are arranged in each department so as to give ten hours 
a week in the afternoon between 4.30 and 6.30. This work is given by the same 
professors and is of the same quality and grade as that given in other hours of the 
day. In order to make all the work of equal grade and to maintain the values of 
the degrees, students taking the afternoon courses are required to take additional 
years to earn a degree. Thus in the arts and sciences a full-day student completes 
a course of 60 points in four years, while the afternoon student must take from five 
to six years. In the law department the full-day student earns the standard degree 
in a course of fourteen hours per week in three years, while the afternoon student, 
in a course of ten to eleven hours per week, is required to take four years. This 
arrangement holds true in all of the work in the university excepting the medical 
department. The medical department has only one course and that is a full-day 
course. 

The standard of admission to the colleges of the university was raised to those 
required by all eastern colleges and universities, excepting in the professional schools, 
where the standard of admission is a four-year high-school course or its equivalent. 

In endeavoring to meet the demands of many students in the District of Columbia, 
technical courses of college grade have been introduced. These technical courses 
are carried on in the colleges of engineering and mechanic arts, architecture, teachers' 
college, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy. As stated above, in order to do this 
work economically, the technical courses only are given in these colleges, and the 
general, sometimes called the cultural, courses in arts and sciences ai'e given in the 
college of arts and sciences. 

This change necessitated an increase in the current expenses of the university. 
In 1902 there were 11 professors, assistant professors, and instructors giving their entire 
time to the university; to-day there are 41. The library, v/hich then consisted of 
only six or seven thousand volumes, now has over forty thousand volumes. The 
laboratories, which were meager, now are reasonably well eqiiipped for the work which 
is being done. It was believed that by thus increasing the standards and efficiency 
of the university, and meeting the demands of the District, financial aid would be 
forthcoming and the increased expenses be met. 

In order that you may be more fully advised of the educational plans and efforts 
of the university we submit herewith two documents, a report by the president, 
authorized to be published by the board of trustees, dated November 10, 1908, marked 
"4," and an address by the president entitled "The univerwsity and the District," 
marked "5." 

The budget of expenses for the present year and the estimated income of the present 
year are set forth in the accompanying printed document, marked "6." 

A reorganization of the finances of the university is in progress, as a result of which 

it is contemplated that the endowment funds will be restored to productive investment. 

It is a question whether the provisions in House bill 24316, requiring tuition in the 

subjects therein mentioned at |20 per year and prohibiting the use of any part of the 

appropriation for equipment — restrictions which it is understood are not imposed in 



32 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 

tlie case of any other allotment of the Morrill fund — will not render it impossible for 
the university to accept the responsibility of administering the fund. 

In the event that any further information is desired by you or by the Congress of 
the United States we shall be pleased to furnish it upon request. If any statements 
or information furnished herewith is not clearly understood we shall esteem it a favor 
if you will give us an opportunity to explain and elucidate the same. 

For the board of trustees of the George Washington University, we have the honor 
to be, 

Very respectfully, yours, 

Chas. W. Needham, President. 
C. H. Stockton, 
H. C. Perkins, 
A. H. Snow, 

A. LiSNER, 

Committee of the Board of Trustees. 



EXHIBITS REFERRED TO IN THE LETTER OF THE ATTORNEY- 
GENERAL. 

Exhibit I. 

Acts of Congress, Act of the Legislative Assembly of the District of Colum- 
bia, AND Certificate of Change of Name of the Columbian University, 

TOGETHER FORMING ON MaY 1, 1909, THE CHARTER OP ThE GeORGE WASHINGTON 

University. 

THE charter of THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 
AN ACT To incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted, etc., That there be erected, and hereby is erected and established, 
in the District of Columbia, a college, for the sole and exclusive purpose of educat- 
ing youth in the English, learned, and foreign languages, the liberal arts, sciences, 
and literature; the style and title of which shall be, and hereby is declared to be, 
"The Columbian College in the District of Columbia." 

Sec 2. And he it further enacted. That the said college shall be under the manage- 
ment, direction, and government of a number of trustees, not exceeding thirty-one, 
to be elected triennially, by the contributors to the said college, qualified to vote, in 
such manner, and under such limitations and restrictions, as may be provided by the 
ordinances of the college, on the first Monday in May; and that the first trustees of the 
said college shall consist of the following persons, namely: Obadiah B. Brown, Luther 
Rice, Enoch Reynolds, Josiah Meigs, Spencer H. Cone, Daniel Brown, Return J. 
Meigs, Joseph Gibson, Joseph Cone, Thomas Corcoran, Burgis Allison, Thomas Sewall, 
and Joseph Thaw; which said trustees, and their successors, shall forever hereafter 
be, and they are hereby declared to be, one body politic and corporate, with per- 
petual succession, in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, by the 
name, style, and title of "The Columbian College in the District of Columbia;" by 
which name and title, they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall be competent 
and capable, at laM'' and in equity, to take to themselves and their successors, for the 
use of the said college, any estate, in any messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments, 
goods, chattels, moneys, and other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, 
assurance, will, devise, or bequest, of any person or persons whatsoever: Provided, 
The same do not exceed, in the whole, the yearly value of twenty-five thousand 
dollars; and the same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estate, real 
and personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, demise, and to farm let, and place 
out on interest, for the use of the said college, in such manner as to them, or at least 
nine of them, shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to receive the rents, 
issues, and profits, income, and interest, of the same, and to apply the same to the 
proper use and benefit of the said college; and by the same name to sue, commence, 
prosecute, and defend, implead and be impleaded, in any courts of law and equity, 
and in all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally, by and in the same 
name, to do and transact all and every the business touching or concerning the 
premises. 

Sec. 3. And he it further enacted. That the said trustees shall cause to be made for 
their use one common seal, with such devices and inscriptions thereon as they shall 
think proper, under and by which all deeds, diplomas, certificates, and acts of the 



GEORGE WASHINGTON" UNIVEESITY. 33 

said college, shall pass and be authenticated; and the same seal, at their pleasure, to 
break and devise a new one. 

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or five of them at least, shall 
meet at the college, on College Hill, in the said District of Columbia, on the first 
Monday in March next, for the purpose of concerting and agreeing to such business as, 
in consequence of this act, shall be proper to be laid before them at the commencement 
of the work they have undertaken, and shall have power to adjourn from time to time, 
as they shall see cause, to any other times or places, for the purpose of perfecting the 
same . That there shall be a stated meeting of the said trustees held twice in every year 
at least, at such place and time as the said trustees, or a quorum thereof, shall appoint, 
of which public notice shall be given, after the first meeting, at least twenty days 
before [the] time of such intended meeting, whenever the president, to be appointed 
by them, shall deem the business of the institution to require the same, and give due 
notice thereof, which he is hereby authorized to do; and if at such stated or occasional 
meetings five of the said trustees shall not be present those of them who shall be pres- 
ent shall have power to adjourn the meeting to any other day, as fully and effectually 
to all intents and purposes as if the whole number of trustees for the time being were 
present; but if five or more of the said trustees shall meet at the said appointed times, 
or at any other time of adjournment, then such five of the said trustees shall be a 
board or quorum, and a majority of the votes of them shall be capable of doing and 
transacting all the business and concerns of the said college not otherwise provided 
for by this act, and particularly of making and enacting ordinances for the govern- 
ment of the said college; of electing and appointing the president, professors, and 
tutors for the said college; of agreeing with them for their salaries and stipends, and 
removing them for misconduct or breach of the laws of the institution; of appointing 
committees of their own body to carry into execution all and every the resolutions of 
the board; of appointing a president, treasurer, secretary, stewards, managers, and 
other necessary and customary officers for taking care of the estate and managing the 
concerns of the corporation; and, generally, a majority of voices of the board, or quo- 
rum of the said trustees, consisting of five persons at least, at any semiannual, occa- 
sional, or adjourned meeting, after notice given as aforesaid, shall determine all 
matters and things (although the same be not herein particularly mentioned) which 
shall occasionally arise and be incidentally necessary to be determined and transacted 
by the said trustees: Provided always, That no ordinances shall be of force which shall 
be repugnant to this charter or to the laws of the District of Columbia. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the head or chief master for the said college 
shall be called and styled "the president," and the masters thereof shall be called 
"professors and tutors; " but neither president, professors, or tutors, while they remain 
such, shall ever be capable of the office of trustee. 

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted. That the president, professors, and tutors, or a 
majority of them, shall be called and styled "the faculty of the college," which 
faculty shall have the power of enforcing the rules and regulations adopted by the 
trustees for the government of the pupils, by rewarding or censuring them, and, 
finally, by suspending such of them as after repeated admonitions shall continue 
disobedient and refractory, until a determination of a quorum of the trustees can be 
had, and of granting and confirming, by and with the approbation and consent of a 
board of the trustees, signified by their mandamus, such degrees in the liberal arts 
and sciences, to such pupils of the institution, or others, who, by their proficiency in 
learning or other meritorious distinction, they shall think entitled to them, as are 
usually granted and conferred in colleges; and to grant to such graduates diplomas or 
certificates, under their common seal and signed by the faculty, to authenticate and 
perpetuate the memory of such graduation. 

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That persons of every religious denomination shall 
be capable of being elected trustees; nor shall any person, either as president, pro- 
fessor, tutor, or pupil, be refused admittance into said college, or denied any of the 
privileges, immunities, or advantages thereof, for or on account of his sentiments in 
matters of religion. 

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That no misnomer of the said corporation shall 
defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise, or bequest to or from the said corporation: 
Provided, The intent of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, 
grant, will, or other writing, whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass to 
or from the said corporation. 

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the constitution of the said college herein 
and hereby declared and establislaed shall be and remain the inviolate constitu- 
tion of the said college forever ; and the same shall not be altered or altera,ble by any 
ordinance or law of the said trustees: Provided, That it may be lawful for the Congress 

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of the United States to revoke and repeal this act at any and at all times whenever 
they shall think fit so to do. 

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said board of 
trustees to keep a regular book or journal, in which shall be entered, under their direc- 
tion, besides an account of all their ordinary acts and proceedings, all the by-laws, ordi- 
nances, rules, and regulations which may be adopted by the said board for their own gov- 
ernment and for the government of the institution; also, a schedule of all the property 
and effects, real, personal, or mixed, which shall or may be vested in the said trus- 
tees, for the use of the said college, by virtue of any gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, or 
otherwise, together with annual statements concerning the accounts and finances of 
the institution. That it shall, moreover, be the duty of the said trustees to cause 
to be enrolled in the said book or journal the names of all the contributors to the 
institution qualified to vote for trustees, with their respective places of residence; 
and the said book or journal shall at all times be open to the inspection or examina- 
tion of the Attorney-General of the United States; and when required by either 
House of Congress it shall be the duty of said trustees to furnish information respecting 
their own conduct, the state of the institution, and of its finances which shall or may 
be so required. 

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That in case any vacancy or vacancies shall 
happen in the board of trustees aforesaid by death, inability, resignation, or other- 
wise, at any time between the stated or triennial elections, that then it shall and 
may be lawful for the other trustees, or any five of them, to proceed, at any subse- 
quent meeting after the happening of such vacancy or vacancies, to choose, by ballot, 
any suitable person or persons to fill the same . 

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the employment or application of the funds 
or income of the said corporation, or any part thereof, for any purpose or object other 
than those expressed and defined in the first section of this act, or the investment 
thereof in any other mode than is described and provided in the second section thereof, 
shall be deemed and taken to be a forfeiture of all the rights and immunities derived 
from this act, and the same shall thenceforth cease and become null and void. 

Approved, February 9, 1821. 

(Stat. L., vol. 6, pp. 255-258, 16th Cong., 2d sess., ch. 10.) 



AN ACT Granting certain city lots to the corporation of the Columbian College for the purposes therein 

mentioned. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled. That there shall be, and hereby are, granted to the Columbian 
College, in the District of Columbia, lots in the city of Washington to the amount, 
in value, of twenty-five thousand dollars, which said lots shall be selected and valued 
by the commissioner of the public buildings, when requested by the trustees of the 
said college, and when the said lots shall be so selected and valued the same shall 
be vested in the said corporation in fee simple, to be by them held and disposed of 
in the manner following, that is to say the said corporation, by proper and lawful 
act or acts, under their corporate seal, shall sell and dispose of the said lots, as soon 
as reasonably practicable, for the best price or prices they can obtain; and shall vest 
the proceeds of the same in some public stock or in stock of some incorporated bank. 

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That, when the lots aforesaid shall be selected and 
valued as aforesaid, the said commissioner shall make return of the numbers and de- 
scription thereof to the clerk of the circuit court of the county of Washington, to be 
by him recorded among the records of land titles in the said county. 

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of the sales aforesaid, so to be 
vested, shall not be otherwise used by the said trustees than as a capital, to be by 
them forever hereafter kept vested as aforesaid; and the dividends or interest there- 
from accruing shall by them be used and applied in aid of the other revenues of 
the said college, to the establishment and endowment of such professorships therein 
as now are, or hereafter shall be, established by the said trustees, and to and for no 
other purpose whatever. 

Approved, July 14, 1832. 

(Stat. L., vol. 4, pp. 603-604; 22d Cong., 1st sess., ch. 248.) 



AN ACT Supplemental to the "Act granting certain city lots to the corporation of the Columbian College 
for the purposes therein mentioned," approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty- 
two. 

Be it enacted, <fec., That the corporation of the Columbian College be, and hereby 
is, authorized to sell so many of the city lots, granted to said corporation by the act 



GEOKGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 35 

to which this is supplemental, as shall be sufficient to raise the sum of seven thousand 
dollars, and to apply the proceeds of such sale to the payment of debts due from said 
corporation, anything in the act to which this is supplemental to the contrary not- 
withstanding. 
Approved, February 28, 1839. 

Stat. L., vol. 6, p. 751; 25th Cong., 3d sess., ch. 34.) 



AN ACT For the relief of the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia,"' That the Columbian 
College, in the District of Columbia, chartered by and organized and acting under the 
act of Congress approved February nine, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, may, 

a The legislative assembly of the District of Columbia had its existence under the 
provisions of "An act to provide a government for the District of Columbia," approved 
February 21, 1871 (Stat. L., vol. 16, pp. 419-429; 41st Cong., 3d sess., ch. 62). 

This act read in part as follows: 

"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That all that part of the territory of the United States included 
within the Limits of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, created into 
a government by the name of the District of Columbia, by which name it is hereby 
constituted a body corporate for municipal purposes, and may contract and be con- 
tracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have a seal, and exercise 
all other powers of a municipal corporation not inconsistent with the Constitution and 
laws of the United States and the provisions of this act. 

"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the executive power and authority in and 
over the District of Columbia shall be vested in a governor, who shall be appointed 
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall 
hold his office for four years and until his successor shall be appointed and quali- 
fied. * * * 

"Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That every bill which shall have passed the council 
and house of delegates shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor 
of the District of Columbia; if he approve, he shall sign it. * * * 

"Sec. 5. Andbeitfurther enacted. That legislative power and authority in said District 
shall be vested in a legislative assembly, as hereinafter provided. The assembly 
shall consist of a council and house of delegates. * * * 

"Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That all male citizens of the United States above 
the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been actual residents of the District for 
three months prior to the passage of this act, except such as are non compos mentis and 
persons convicted of infamous crimes, shall be entitled to vote at said election, in the 
election district or precinct in which he shall then reside and shall have so resided 
for thirty days immediately preceding said election, and shall be eligible to any 
office within the said District, and for all subsequent elections twelve months' prior 
residence shall be required to constitute a voter; but the legislative assembly shall 
have no right to abridge or limit the right of suffrage. * * * 

"Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the legislative power of the District shall 
extend to all rightful subjects of legislation within the District, consistent with the 
Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act, subject, neverthe less, 
to all the restrictions and limitations imposed upon States by the tenth section of the 
first article of the Constitution of the United States; but all acts of the legislative 
assembly shall at all times be subject to repeal or modification by the Congress of 
the United States, and nothing herein shall be construed to deprive Congress of the 
power of legislation over said District in as ample manner as if this law had not been 
enacted. * * * 

"Sec 28. And be it further enacted, Tht the said legislative assembly shall have 
power to create by general law, modify, repeal, or amend, within said District, corpo- 
rations aggregate for religious, charitable, educational, industrial, or commercial pur- 
poses, and to define their powers and liabilities: Provided, That the powers of corpora- 
tions so created shall be limited to the District of Columbia. * * * 

"Sec. 34. And be it further enacted, That a Delegate to the House of Representatives 
of the United States, to serve for the term of two years, who shall be a citizen of the 
United States and of the District of Columbia, and shall have the qualifications of a 
voter, may be elected by the voters qualified to elect members of the legislative 
assembly, who shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges as are exercised and 



36 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

from the proceeds of any sale of its property, apply such sum as may be needful to pay 
its present indebtedness and place its libraries, buildings, and apparatus of instruc- 
tion in good condition, and execute all deeds needful to quiet the title of property 
already sold . 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of said college elected in May last 
shall constitute the corporation of said college until their successors in office shall be 
chosen and qualified as hereinafter provided, and may, until then, as vacancies occur 
in their number, temporarily fill them by the elction of fit persons residing in the 
District of Columbia. 

Sec. 3 . And be it further enacted, That the said trustees shall meet in the law building 
of said college at noon, on the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
two, for the purpose of choosing, and shall then and there, or at the time and place to 
which said meeting may be adjourned, elect thirteen trustees and thirteen overseers, 
who shall, upon their election, constitute the college corporation, and they and their 
successors shall thenceforward be, and be known and recognized as, the Columbian 
College in the District of Columbia. 

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the trustees chosen at the said meeting in 
June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, or who may thereafter be chosen, shall be 
residents of the District of Columbia, and that at said meeting, and at any annual 
meeting of trustees and overseers to be thereafter held in said city of Washington on 
the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday in June, annually, the trustees and 
overseers in convention assembled shall fill vacancies in their board, and shall, by 
ballot, elect from among the trustees two suitable persons, one to be president and the 
other to be treasurer and secretary of said corporation and of the board of trustees, and 
shall establish ordinances and by-laws, or alter or repeal the same; and also frame; 
laws and regulations for the college faculty and students in all the departments thereof, 
and by ballot elect such teachers, tutors, professors, lecturers, and president, and 
with such salaries and duties as said corporation may deem proper. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That at said annual meetings not less than seven 
trustees and three overseers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business 
except adjournment, and adjournment may be made by any member present; Pro- 
vided, That a final adjournment shall not be delayed beyond one week after the time 
fixed for the annual meeting. 

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That during the interval between said annual 
meetings the trustees shall, as now, hold semiannual, quarterly, monthly, and occa- 
sional meetings to fill temporarily, as the case may require, vacancies in the faculty 
or in their own board, and with all their present powers as modified by this act, sub- 
ject to the ordinances and by-laws of the corporation; but no real estate or other 
property of said corporation shall, after the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred 
and seventy-two, be disposed of by the trustees, except by vote of the corporation 
or in pursuance of its ordinances. 

Approved, July 25, 1871. 

(Laws of the District of Columbia, 1871-72, pt. 2, pp. 21, 22. Acts of the first 
legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, 1st sess., ch. 18.) 



AN ACT Supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating 
the Columbia[n] College, in the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That the act to incorporate the Columbia[n] College in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, be, 
and the same is hereby, so modified that said corporation shall be hereafter known 

enjoyed by the Delegates from the several Territories of the United States to the House 
of Representatives, and shall also be a member of the Committee for the District of 
Columbia." 

The form of government by a governor and legislative assembly, with a Delegate in 
Congress, was abolished by "An act for the government of the District of Columbia, and 
for other purposes," approved June 20, 1874, Stat. L., vol. 18, pp. 116-121; 43d Cong., 
1st sess., ch. 337). By this last act a form of government by a commission, consisting 
of three persons appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the ad- 
vice and consent of the Senate, was instituted; and this form of government was con- 
tinued, with some changes, by "An act providing a permanent form of government 
for the District of Columbia," approved June 11,1878 (Stat. L., vol. 20, pp. 102-108; 
45th Cong., 2d sess., ch. 180), which is the organic act of the District. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 37 

and .called by the name of the Columbia[n] University, and in that name shall take, 
hold, and manage all the estate and property now belonging to said college, or that may 
hereafter be conveyed, devised, or bequeathed to said corporation by its original 
name; that the restriction of the yearly value of the property of the said corporation 
to the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the said restriction is hereby, 
repealed ; and that said corporation may increase the number of its overseers to twenty- 
one, and the number of its trustees to twenty-one exclusive of the president of the 
faculty, who shall be ex oflBcio a trustee of said corporation. 

Sec. 2. That the act for the relief of the Columbian College in the District of Colum- 
bia enacted by the legislative assembly of said District, and approved July twenty- 
fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be, and the same is hereby, approved and 
confirmed: Provided, That this act nor the said act of the legislative assembly of the 
said District shall be so construed as to authorize the said Columbian University to 
sell or use the proceeds of any sale of land granted by Congress to said institution for 
any purpose other than that expressed in the act of incorporation and the act granting 
any such land or real estate, or contrary to any will, devise, or grant of any land or real 
estate heretofore or hereafter made by any person or persons to said institution. 

Approved, March 3, 1873. 

(Stat. L., vol. 17, p. 629; 42d Cong., 3d sess., ch. 328.) 



AN ACT Supplementary to the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An 
act supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating Colum- 
bia[u] College, District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
three, ratifying and confirming the act for the relief of Columbian College in the 
District of Columbia, enacted by the legislative assembly of the said District, and 
approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be so modified as to 
authorize the trustees and overseers of the Columbian University to hold their annual 
meeting on such day in May or June as the said trustees and overseers shall appoint, 
instead of being held on "the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday in June." 

Approved, May 31, 1878. 

(Stat. L., vol. 20, p. 88; 45th Cong., 2d sess., ch. 147.) 



AN ACT To amend the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the relief of the Colum- 
bian University, in the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled. That the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and 
seventy-three, entitled "An act supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen 
hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College, in the District of 
Columbia, " be, and the same is, so modified that hereafter the treasurer and secretary 
of said corporation, the Columbian University, need not be one person nor a member 
of the trustees of said corporation, but the trustees and overseers of said corporation, 
in convention assembled, shall annually elect by ballot two suitable persons from 
among the trustees or not, as they may deem proper, one to be treasurer and the other 
secretary of said corporation and of the board of trustees. 

Sec. 2. That in case of the death, resignation, or inability to act of either the treasurer 
or secretary, the board of trustees shall have power to fill the vacancy until his suc- 
cessor is duly elected. 

Approved, January 14, 1893. ' 

(Stat. L., vol. 27, p. 420; 52d Cong., 2d sess., ch. 38.) 



AN ACT Supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating 
the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia, and the acts amendatory thereof. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That the Columbian University, on and after the first day of 
June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be under the management and con- 



38 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 

trol of a board of trustees, consisting of twenty-two members; the president of the 
university shall be ex officio a member of said board, and the remaining twenty-one 
shall be divided into three classes with seven members in each class; a majority of 
said board shall be residents of the District of Columbia, and seven members shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. That on or before the thirty-first 
day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, a meeting of the trustees and over- 
seers of said university shall be held, and said meeting shall elect twenty-one trustees, 
seven of whom shall be designated to serve from the first day of June, eighteen hundred 
and ninety-eight, until the annual meeting in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; 
and seven from the same date until the annual meeting in nineteen hundred; and 
seven until the annual meeting in nineteen hundred and one. Two-thirds of said 
trustees, and also the president of the university, shall be members of regular Baptist 
churches; that is to say, members of churches of that denomination of Protestant 
Christians now usually known and recognized under the name of the regular Baptist 
denomination; said trustees so elected shall serve for the periods mentioned and until 
their successors are elected. That on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-eight, the terms of office of the present trustees and overseers shall cease and 
determine, and thereupon the control and management of said university, its property 
and trusts, shall vest in the board of trustees, elected as hereinabove provided, and 
their successors. 

Sec. 2. That at the annual meeting in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and 
annually thereafter, there shall be elected by the board of trustees seven trustees to 
fill the places of the class whose terms of office expire; and the board of trustees may 
prescribe in a by-law the mode of nominating persons for election as trustees. A 
failure to elect trustees at the annual meeting shall not create vacancies in the board, 
but such election may be had and vacancies occurring during the year may be filled 
for the unexpired term by the board at any general or special meeting. 

Sec. 3. That the board of trustees provided for herein shall have, and they are 
hereby given, full power and authority to appoint and remove any and all officers, 
professors, lecturers, teachers, tutors, agents, and employees who are now or may 
hereafter be elected or appointed ; they may, by a vote of two-thirds of all the trustees 
constituting said board, adopt and change by-laws for the conduct of the business and 
educational work of said university; they may appoint an executive committee com- 
posed of trustees, designate the number and chairman thereof, with such powers and 
authority as are usually exercised by an executive committee, and which shall be 
conferred by the board, subject always to the control of the board of trustees; they 
may create and establish schools and departments of learning to be connected with 
and become a part of said university; they may receive, invest, and administer 
endowments and gifts of money and property for the maintenance of educational work 
by said university, and by any department and chair thereof now established or which 
may hereafter be created or established by said university; and they shall have all 
the powers and authority heretofore granted to and vested in the trustees and over- 
seers of said university. 

Sec. 4. That the annual meeting of the board of trustees shall be held in the city of 
Washington, District of Columbia, on the Wednesday nearest the first day of June in 
each year; two other stated meetings shall be held on the second Wednesday of 
October and January in each year, and special meetings may be called by the president 
of the university or by the executive committee or by seven members of the board of 
trustees upon such notice and at such hour and place as may be designated in the 
by-laws; at all meetings any business necessary to be transacted may be considered 
and acted upon, and any meeting may be adjourned from time to time by the trustees 
present, whether constituting a quorum or not, notice of such adjournment to be 
given, as of called meetings, to those trustees not present. 

Sec. 5. That the terms of office of the president of the university, the treasurer and 
other officers, professors, and lecturers, and the employment of agents and employees, 
and the title to all the property and rights in and management of the endowment 
funds of the university shall not be affected by the change of management herein 
provided for, but they shall continue and be subject to the control and management 
of the board of trustees hereby created the same as they are now subject to the control 
and management of the corporation. 

Sec. 6. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act 
are hereby repealed. 

Approved, March 18, 1898. 

(Stat. L., vol. 30, pp. 328, 329; 55th Cong., 2d sess., ch. 72.) 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 39 

AN ACT Supplemental to the act of February ninth., eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the 
Columbian College in the District of Columbia, and the acts amendatory thereof. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That the act to incorporate the Columbian College, in the 
District of Columbia, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, and 
the amendatory act approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, 
be, and the same are hereby, amended by repealing and striking out of the said charter 
the following words in lines twenty to twenty-five in section one of the said amenda- 
tory act of March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely, "Two- 
thirds of said trustees, and also the president of the university, shall be members of 
regular Baptist churches; that is to say, members of churches of that denomination 
of Protestant Christians now usually known 'and recognized under the name of the 
regular Baptist denomination." 

Sec. 2. That section thirteen of the original charter of February ninth, eighteen 
hundred and twenty -one, which provides "That persons of every religious denomina- 
tion shall be capable of being elected trustees; nor shall any person, either as presi- 
dent, professor, tutor, or pupil, be refused admittance into said college, or denied any 
of the privileges, immunities, or advantages thereof, for or on account of his sentiments 
in matters of religion," be, and the same is hereby, reenacted and shall be hereafter in 
full force as a part of said charter. 

Sec. 3. That power is hereby given to the board of trustees of said university to 
change the name of said university at any regular meeting by a vote of not less than 
two-thirds of the total number of members of the board, as prescribed by the charter, 
subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Edu- 
cation. That upon said action being taken a certificate, under the seal of the uni- 
versity, stating the name adopted and the date when the name shall go into effect not 
less than thirty days nor more than six months from the date of its adoption, together 
with the fact that said name has been adopted as herein prescribed, shall be filed in the 
office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and thereupon, upon the 
date specified for the name to go into effect, the university shall be known and desig- 
nated by the name adopted, and by said new name the said university shall be vested 
with and convey its real estate, hold, control, and administer endowments and gifts 
of money and property heretofore and hereafter made for the maintenance of its educa- 
tional work, and do and perform all acts which it now has the power to do under its said 
charter. Such change of name shall not in any other way change, affect, or modify in 
any degree the rights, privileges, obligations, and powers of the said university under 
the charter of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, and the amendatory 
acts thereto. 

Sec. 4. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 

Approved, Januaiy 23, 1904. 

(Stat. L., vol. 33, part 1, pp. 7, 8; 58th Cong., 2d sess., ch. 7.) 



CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF NAME OF THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY TO THE GEORGE 

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY." 

District of Columbia, City of Washington: 

The Columbian University, in accordance with the act of Congress approved Jan- 
uary 23, 1904, does hereby certify that, at the regular meeting of its board of trustees 
duly held on the 8th day of June, 1904, at which meeting there were present more 
than two-thirds of the total number of members of the board, it was unanimously 
resolved that, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the Com- 
missioner of Education, prescribed by said act of Congress, the name of this university 
be changed to that of The George Washington University, the same to go into effect 
on the 1st day of September, A. D. 1904. 

And it is hereby fmther certified, that on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1904, the Secre- 
tary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Education duly approved in writing said 
change of name, which said written approval is hereto attached and made a part hereof. 

In testimony whereof, said Columbian University has given this its certificate under 
its corporate seal, at the city of Washington, D. C, on the 21st day of June, A. D. 1904. 

[seal.] Charles W. Needham, President. 

Attest : 

John B. Larner, Secretary. 



40 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

United States of America, 

Department of the Interior, 
Washington, D. C, June 20, 1904. 
Pursuant to section 882 of the Revised Statutes, I hereby certify that the annexed 
paper is a true copy of the original as it appears upon the files of the department. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of 
the Department of the Interior to be affixed the day and year fii'st above written. 
[seal.] E. a. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 

W. B. A. 

^Vhereas by act of Congress, approved January 23, 1904, the Columbian University 
was authorized to change its name, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Commissioner of Education; and 

"Whereas it has been made satisfactorily to appear to us that, at the regular meeting 
of the board of trustees of said university, held on the 8th day of June, A. D. 1904, at 
which meeting there were present more than two-thirds of the total number of mem- 
bers of said board, it was unanimously resolved to change the name of said university 
to that of The George Washington University, the same to go into effect on the 1st day 
of September, A. D. 1904: 

Now, therefore, this is to witness that, pursuant to said act of Congress, we do 
hereby, this 20th day of June, A. D. 1904, approve said change of name. 

[seal.] E. a. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 

W. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education. 



Office of the Recorder of Deeds, 

District of Columbia. 

This is to certify that the foregoing is a true and verified copy of the cetificate of 
change of name of the Columbian University to The George Washington University, 
and of the whole of said certificate of change of name, as filed in this office the 22d 
day of June, 1904, and recorded in Liber No. 16, folio 95 et seq., one of the incorpora- 
tion records of the District of Columbia. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this office 
this 11th day of February, A. D. 1910. 

[seal.] R. W. Dutton, 

Deputy Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia. 



AN ACT Supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the 
Coliunbian College in the District of Columbia, and the acts amendatory thereof. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That The George Washington University shall have, and is 
hereby given, power to increase the number of its trustees from time to time, by a 
two-thirds vote of the whole number of the trustees at the time such vote is taken, 
to a number not exceeding forty-five. In case of the increase of the number of trus- 
tees a certificate, stating the number of the board and the time when it shall go into 
effect and that the action so taken was by a two-thirds vote as required by this act, 
shall be filed with the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and upon and 
after the date named the board shall consist of the number of trustees stated in such 
certificate, and said board may also appoint a boai'd or boards of visitors for any depai't- 
ment or departments of educational work carried on by the university, such boards 
of visitors to be advisory only. 

Sec. 2. That by and with the consent of said university, colleges may be organized 
hereunder for the purpose of carrying on, in connection with the university, special 
lines of educational work in the arts, sciences, and liberal and technical knowledge, 
such colleges to be educationally a part of the system of the university, but upon 
independent financial foundations, and to this end any five or more persons desirous 
of associating themselves for the purpose of establishing a college hereunder may 
make, sign, and acknowledge before any officer authorized to take acknowledgment 
of deeds in the District of Columbia, and with the assent of the university in writing, 
file in the office of the recorder of deeds of the said District a certificate in writing, 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 41 

in which shall be stated: First, the intention to organize a corporation under this 
act and the assent of the university thereto; second, the name or title by which the 
college shall be known in law; third, the names of the trustees constituting the first 
board, and such trustees may be divided into three classes, the term of office of one 
class expiring annually; fourth, the manner of nominating and electing successors to 
said trustees; fifth, the branch or branches of literature, arts, science, liberal or tech- 
nical knowledge proposed to be taught; sixth, that the highest officer of said college 
shall be a dean, the dean and members of the faculty to be members of the educa- 
tional councils of the university in accordance with the rules governing the univer- 
sity; seventh, that all degrees shall be bestowed by the university; eighth, that in all 
financial and legal responsibility the college shall be an independent organization. 
Upon filing such certificate the trustees named therein and their successors shall be 
a body politic, incorporated by the name and style stated in the certificate, and by 
that name and style shall have perpetual succession in association with the univer- 
sity, with power in the college to sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; to acquire, 
hold, and convey property in all legal ways; to receive by gift, devise, or otherwise, 
and hold, control, and administer endowments and gifts of money and property 
thereafter made to it for the maintenance of its educational work; to have and use 
a common seal, and to alter and change the same at pleasure; to make and alter from 
time to time such by-laws, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United 
States or the laws in force in said District or the laws of the university regulating the 
conduct of educational work, as may be deemed necessary for the government of the 
college, but said college shall not confer academic or honorary degrees; such college 
shall hold the property of the institution and all moneys and property conveyed to 
it by purchase, gift, conveyance, will, devise, or bequest solely for the purposes of the 
educational work specified in said certificate; the trustees of such college shall faith- 
fully apply all funds collected or received and the proceeds thereof belonging to the 
institution, according to their best judgment, in purchasing lands and erecting build- 
ings, supporting necessary officers, instructors, and servants, and procuring all equip- 
ment, educational and otherwise, necessary to carry on the work of the college. 

Sec. 3. That said university may enter into affiliated agreements with any insti- 
tutions of learning outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of giving to 
students of such institutions the educational facilities of said university and the 
departments of the Government in the city of Washington which are by law open to 
students upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon by the said university and 
the affiliated institutions. 

Approved, March 3, 1905. 

(Stat. L., vol. 33, pt. 1, pp. 1036, 1037; 58th Cong., 3d sess., ch. 1467.) 



Exhibit 2. 

[This consists of a copy of the George Washington University Bulletin, June ,1909, catalogue number, a 
volume of 281 pages, and not deemed necessary to be printed herev^ith.] 



Exhibit 3. 

Department of the Interior, 

Bureau op Education, 
Washington, D. C, November £6, 1900. 
To presidents, treasurers, and boards of control of state colleges of agriculture and mechanic 
arts, and of institutions of like character for the education of colored students: 
Gentlemen: Your attention is respectfully called to the requirements of the act 
of Congress approved August 30, 1890, in aid of the land-grant colleges of agriculture 
and the mechanic arts, respecting the annual reports of the presidents and treasurers 
of said institutions to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secreatry of the Interior, 
and to certain decisions respecting the disbursement of the funds authorized by the 
said act. 

1. The annual reports of treasurers are required to be made on or before September 
1 of each year (sec. 2). 

2. The reports of presidents must be received before the States can be certified for 
the annual installments of this fund, and it is respectfully requested that they be for- 
warded to this office not later than September 1 of each year. 

3. The funds annually appropriated by the act of August 30, 1890, must be expended 
during the year for which they are appropriated and for the purposes specified in the 



42 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 

said act, and can not be allowed to accumulate in the form of an unexpended balance 
or be invested as a permanent interest-bearing fund (decision of the Assistant Attorney- 
General, June 20, 1899). The department will insist on the expenditure annually of 
substantially the entire amount appropriated by the act of August 30, 1890, and boards 
of control of agricultural and mechanical colleges are requested to make provision for 
such expenditures. It is understood, of course, that contracts may be entered into for 
machinery or other educational material which, for good reasons, may not be ready 
and paid for until the following year. In such cases it is sufficient to explain, by a 
note in the report, that the balance is held for the purpose of liquidating bills already 
incurred, and stating the nature of the outstanding contracts. 

4. The funds are "to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic 
arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, 
natvual, and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the 
industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction." It is held that this lan- 
guage authorizes the pm'chase from this money of apparatus, machinery, text-books, 
reference books, stock and material used in instruction, or for the purposes of illus- 
tration in connection with any of the branches enumerated, and the payment of salaries 
of instructors in said branches only. 

5. The expenditure of any portion of these funds "for the purchase, erection, preser- 
vation, or repair of any building or buildings" under any pretense whatever is spe- 
cifically prohibited by the act (sec. 3), and the purchase of land is not allowable 
(decision of Assistant Attorney-General, March, 1891). 

6. The salaries of purely administrative officers, such as presidents, treasurers, 
secretaries, bookkeepers, janitors, watchmen, etc., can not be charged to this fund 
(decision of Assistant Attorney-General, March 7, 1894), nor can it be expended for 
heating or lighting buildings, musical instruments, furniture, cases, shelving, desks, 
lockers, salaries of instructors in philosophy, psychology, ethics, logic, history, polit- 
ical science, civics, pedagogy, and in ancient and modern languages (except English) . 
When an administrative officer also gives instruction in any of the branches of study 
mentioned in the act of August 30, 1890, or when an instructor gives such instruction 
and also devotes part of his time to giving instruction in branches of study not men- 
tioned in the said act, only a part of such person's salary proportionate to the time 
devoted to giving instruction in the branches of study mentioned in the said act of 
August 30, 1890, can be charged to these funds. 

7. In order that greater uniformity in the reports of treasurers may be obtained in 
the futm-e, the following classification of subjects that may be included under the 
several schedules has been prepared, such classification to be adhered to by the 
treasurers of the various institutions in the preparation of their annual reports: 

Schedule A. — Instruction in agriculture. — (1) Agriculture, (2) horticulture, (3) 
forestry, (4) agronomy, (5) animal husbandry, (6) dairying, (7) veterinary science, 

(8) poultry industry, (9) apiculture. 

Schedule B. — Instruction in mechanic arts. — (1) Mechanical engineering, (2) civil 
engineering, (3) electrical engineering, (4) irrigation engineering, (5) mining engineer- 
ing, (6) marine engineering, (7) railway engineering, (8) experimental engineering, 

(9) textile industry, (10) architecture, (11) machine design, (12) mechanical drawing, 
(13) ceramics, (14) stenography, (15) typewriting, (16) telegraphy, (17) printing, (18) 
shop work. 

Schedule C. — Instruction in English language. — (1) English language, (2) English 
literature, (3) composition, (4) rhetoric, (5) oratory. 

Schedule D. — Instruction in mathematical sciences. — (1) Mathematics, (2) book- 
keeping, (3) astronomy. 

Schedule E. — Instruction in natural and physical sciences. — (1) Chemistry, (2) 
physics, (3) biology, (4) botany, (5) zoology, (6) geology, (7) mineralogy, (8) metal- 
lurgy, (9) entomology, (10) physiology, (11) bacteriology, (12) pharmacy, (13) physical 
geography, (14) meteorology. 

Schedule F. — Instruction in economic sciences. — (1) Political economy, (2) domestic 
economy, (3) commercial geography. 

Very respectfully, W, T. Harris, Commissioner. 

Approved, December 7, 1900. 

E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 4S 

Exhibit 4. 

report of president charles w. needham to the board op trustees. 

[November 10, 1908.] 
Approved and ordered printed by the board of trustees, November 10, 1908. 

Henry B. F. Macfarland, Chairman. John Joy Edson, LL. B. 

Edward M. Gallaudet, LL. D. Francis G. Newlands, LL. D. 

Vice-Chairman. Charles W. Richardson, M. D. 

William F. Mattingly, LL. D. Charles D. Walcott, LL. D. 

Eugene Levering. Harry C. Yarrow, M. D. 

Samuel H. Greene, D. D., LL. D. Frank C. Henry, Phar. D. 

Theodore W. Noyes, LL. M. Hennen Jennings, C. E. 

Samuel W. Woodward. Henry C. Perkins. 

John B. Larner, LL. D. Thomas H. Anderson. 

Harry C. Davis, Secretary. 

November 10, 1908. 
To the Board of Trustees of 

The George Washington University. 
Gentlemen: The fiscal year including the academic year 1907-8 closed on August 
31, 1908. The total number of students enrolled during the year was 1,258, of which 
number 28 were from 18 foreign countries, and 1,230 were from the United States, repre- 
senting 50 States and Territories and the District of Columbia. They were enrolled 
in the following departments: 

Graduate studies 94 

Undergraduate studies -^. 549 

Professional .'1 639 

1, 282 

Duplicated names 24 

Total 1,258 

The teaching staff consisted of 215 members, as follows: 

Professors - 87 

Assistant professors 38 

Instructors, demonstrators, and assistants 76 

Lecturers 14 

The number of graduates during the year was 255, distributed as follows: 

Bachelor of arts « 24 

Bachelor of science 9^ 

Bachelor of science in chemistry 1 

Bachelor of science in civil engineering 4 

Bachelor of science in electrical engineering 2 

Bachelor of science in mechanical engineering ^ 3 

Bachelor of science in architecture 1 

Doctor of medicine 51 

Doctor of dental surgery 19 

Doctor of pharmacy 8 

Bachelor of laws 87 

Master of laws 9 

Master of patent laws 23 

Master of arts 5 

Master of science 2 

Civil engineer 2 

Electrical engineer 1 

Doctor of philosophy 2 

Doctor of civil law 1 

Master of diplomacy 1 

255 
Four honorary degrees & 4 

Total 259 

« Two with teacher's diploma. & Two doctors of music, 2 doctors of laws. 



44 GEORGE WASHII^GTON UNIVERSITY. 

It is well for us at this time to review the advances made under the present policy 
of the university. 

In the year 1898 the department of comparative jurisprudence and diplomacy was 
organized. It was a graduate school with a two years' course of ten hours per week, 
leading to the degree of master of diplomacy, and a three years' course leading to the 
degree of doctor of civil law. In 1900 the regular course for the degree of bachelor 
of laws in the law department was increased from two to three years, with ten hours 
of class-room work per week; the admission requirements were advanced to a four- 
year high-school course or its equivalent; the method of teaching was improved. 
The school was admitted into the "Association of American Law Schools," and the 
number of students in this department increased from 243 to over 500 in 1902. 

Beginning in the fall of 1902 a policy of administration was adopted, the purpose of 
which was to change the character of the whole university and to gradually convert it 
from a collection of night schools into a full day university, doing work of university 
grade in all departments. The Corcoran scientific school, conducting college work in 
the evening, was discontinued, and all the work in liberal arts was merged into one 
department of arts and sciences, with class-room hours beginning at 9 o'clock in the 
morning and closing at 6.30 in the evening. 

Columbian college was organized to carry on the undergraduate work in the liberal 
arts courses, leading to the bachelor of arts degree. The registration in this college 
at this date is 257, 48 in excess of last year's full registration. These students are 
of fine quality, earnest and enthusiastic in their work and in their support of the 
university. 

The college of engineering was organized in 1905, and it is gratifying to report a 
steady growth in the number of students and in the amount and quality of the technical 
work. There are registered to this date 177 students in engineering, 27 over the 
total registration last year. No better body of students can be found in any institu- 
tion than is now enrolled in this college. 

Professional teachers, giving their whole time, were introduced into the law school; 
the hours changed from the evening to the afternoon; ultimately full-day work and 
the case system of teaching were adopted. 

The department of medicine was brought under the full control of the university 
trustees; professional teachers giving their whole time were added to the faculty; 
laboratory and clinical methods of teaching were introduced, and to-day only full- 
day students are matriculated. 

The department organized under the title of Comparative Jurisprudence and 
Diplomacy was reorganized and is now the College of the Political Sciences, with 
professional and full-day teachers, with a separate building, and is carrying on two 
years of undergraduate and two years of graduate work in the political sciences. It 
has about 80 students enrolled. 

The division of education has professional teachers and a separate building, with 
over a hundred students. The division of architecture has over 50 students of 
excellent grade. These divisions are each in charge of professors giving full time 
to the work. 

In 1905-6 the reorganization was well under way, the standards of admission in the 
various departments raised and the work gradually improved. Since that time con- 
stant progress has been made, tuition fees have been increased, and full-day work is 
required to complete the course in the minimum time allowed for earning degrees. 
Those doing less than full-day work are required to take from one to two years longer 
to complete their courses. To carry out this policy 42 professors, instructors, and 
assistants are now employed on full time as against 11 on full time in 1897. 

In order that a clearer idea may be gained of the progress, at different periods, of 
the changes wrought out under the new policy and to show the increased cost in the 
education of students, a comparative statement is here given. "Full-day" students 
are those giving their whole time to study. "Half -day" students are those in the 
bureaus of the government service, secretaries to Senators, Congressmen and com- 
mittees, who are taking ten hours of class-room work per week. "Special" students 
are those taking on the average from six to seven hours per week. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 



45 



1896-7. 



1900-1. 



1903-4. 



1905-6. 



1907-8. 



Students' fees 

Number of students 

Average received from students, all 
classes 

Expenditure for education 

Average expenditure per student 

Percentage of expense paid by stu- 
dents' fees 



S38,513.22 
o997 

$38.60 

$62,907.02 

$63. 00 

61.03 



$95,664.09 
1,415 

$67. 60 
$115,018.83 

$81.28 

83.02 



$104,656.42 
1,386 

$75. 50 
$121, 633. 47 

$87. 76 



$111,066.11 
1,508 

$73. 65 

$142,561.11 

$94. 53 

78.00 



$105,378.99 
a 1, 197 

$88.04 

$167, 635. 71 

$140. 00' 

63.00 



Professors on full time 

Assistant professors on full time . 
Instructors on full time 



20 
12 
6 



Total teacbers on full time. 



38 



Students, full-day. 
Students, balf-day. 
Students, special . . 



71 

754 



161 

1,012 

242 



172 
945 
269 



203 

1,027 

381 



436 
498 
351 



Students, total . 



b 1,013 



1,415 



1,386 



6 1,611 



6 1,285. 



a Does not include students in departments of pharmacy and veterinary medicine. 
6 Includes students in pharmacy and veterinary medicine. 

The statistics for the present year are most encouraging. The term opened Septem- 
ber 30, and registration is not complete, and does not of course show the number that 
will enter for the second semester. The number of students registered to date is 1,330, 
as follows: 



Department. 



Graduate studies 

Columbian college 

College of engineering 

Architecture 

College of political sciences 

Education (arts and crafts, 26) . 

Medicine 

Dentistry 

Law 

College of pharmacy 

Veterinary medicine 



Total, 



FuU day. 



85 



Half day. 



71 
59 
10 
11 
21 
54 
29 
170 
71 
35 



531 



Special. 



356 



Total. 



92 

257 

177 

50 

78 

103 

149 

29 

289 

71 

35 



1,33a 



(For list of students' names, see University Bulletin, issued October 31, and accompanying this report.) 

From these statistics we see that in 1896-7 there were registered in the university- 
only 71 full-day students. To-day we have 443 students in the university giving their 
whole time and taking regular work throughout the day for degrees, averaging not less 
than fifteen hours a week. This number will probably reach 500 during the year. 
The half-day students number 531 and do their work in the early morning and in the 
afternoons on a schedule of ten hours a week in course for degrees. The special stu- 
dents number 356 and average six hours per week. In 1896-7 there were 11 teachers 
on full time; to-day there are 42. The standard of admission in all departments, 
excepting the dental, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine, is the regular standard 
college entrance requirement in the best institutions — -practically an approved four- 
years' high-school course. 

The present student body is exceptionally good material, well qualified to do the 
work entered upon, and filled with loyalty and enthusiasm. To those familiar with 
the former conditions in the university there is a very marked difference in the quality 
of the pupil material. Those admitted prior to 1902 did not come in upon the standard 
now required. In the professional schools there was no systematic requirement for 
admission. In the then scientific school students were admitted "experimentally," 
and if they could go on with the work were continued; if they could not they fell out 
by the way, as many of them did. In our work last year the total loss from all causes 
on the total registration of 1,258 was only 11 per cent. 

Every institution must ultimately be measured by the intellectual and moral quali- 
ties of its student body and by the number who are making the acquirement of educa- 
tion their prime and sole object during their student years. Thus valued, our university 



46 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 

stands to-day immeasurably in advance of where it stood in 1902. Our work to-day 
receives full credit in every reputable institution, while the members of our faculty 
find cordial reception in educational circles wherever they go. 

Another test of an institution of learning, and one which determines largely its 
standing, is the educational facilities which it possesses, such as libraries and labora- 
tories. In 1902 there were neither books nor reading room in the department of 
medicine. The library of the department of law had been growing for three years 
and had about 2,500 volumes. The department of arts and sciences had a library room, 
without librarian or caretaker, and two or three thousand volumes of books so old that 
they were rarely consulted by students or professors. In fact, the room was used as a 
lounging and conversation room. To-day the medical school has a well-equipped 
library and reading room for students, containing between 2,500 and 3,000 volumes. 
The law school has an excellent working library of between six and seven thousand 
volumes, and the department of arts and sciences has over 30,000 volumes. We expect 
to have, before the year closes, in all departments, approximately 40,000 volumes. 
The old reading room in the main building is now used entirely as a stack room, and 
other space has been giA^en to readers. Our books are standard works and well selected 
treatises, giving owe students excellent materials for work. These libraries are in 
charge of a most capable and experienced librarian, with an assistant librarian, and 
six student assistants. 

By the opening of rented houses and readjustment of space in the old buildings we 
have provided the following: 

Electrical engineering laboratory. 

Mechanical engineering laboratory. 

Drafting rooms. 

Cement testing laboratory. 

Assay laboratory. 

General offices for administration. 

Departmental libraries. 

Club room for men students. 

Students' publications office. 

Offices for professors. 

Quarters for women students and fraternities. 

Electric lighting and telephone service. 

Our laboratory facilities are many times as great as they were five years ago. Not 
only have laboratories been largely increased, but competent instructors and care- 
takers have been appointed, who are daily engaged in work in them, which was not 
the case prior to 1902. 

In addition to our own facilities we have made special arrangements with librarians 
in charge of the governmental and city libraries for the use of books for professors 
and students, and through our professors many of the government laboratories are 
open to graduate and professional students. These arrangements are definite and 
efficient, not, as they used to be, merely the privileges offered to the general public. 

We have also largely increased the space occupied by the educational work. Uni- 
versity hall has been refitted from top to bottom until every inch of space in it is now 
occupied and alive with workers. The court in the rear of the building has been 
roofed and is used as a laboratory. Seven 4-story houses have been rented and 
every room is now occupied. All our buildings are open and class work is going on 
from 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning to 6.30. Professors have their offices and can be 
found daily in the university. These conditions are in marked contrast with those 
existing in 1902. Then the class rooms were only occupied in the evening excepting 
for the few classes carried on by Columbian college. Few professors were found in the 
buildings except when holding classes. In fact the buildings were deserted through 
the day, and the president found it necessary to have only one regular hour per day 
in his office to conduct the administrative affairs. 

To-day 42 professional teachers on full time are engaged in the departments of arts 
and sciences, medicine, law, and the college of the political sciences. 

To value these advances in dollars and cents is impossible. Measured by every 
other test the new university of to-day is a living, healthy, strong organism command- 
ing the respect and the sympathy of a great and growing number of educators and 
friends. 

Because we have not a large number of buildings and a large endowment we fear 
the work is not appreciated by those who ought to see and know the importance of it. 
The following well-known institutions, with many others that might be named, have 
fewer students than we have (figures taken from last year's catalogues): 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 47 

Amherst 458 

Bucknell 708 

Brown 937 

Dartmouth 998 

Georgetown, D . C 693 

Johns Hopkins 720 

Lehigh ^ ■ 685 

Princeton « - 1, 301 

Tulane 903 

University of Maine 611 

Union University 616 

University of Virginia 728 

Western Reserve 856 

Western University of Pennsylvania 911 

The following have fewer full-day students than we have: 

Bowdoin 333 

Clark University 100 

Collegiate Department of Clark 65 

Georgetown, ky 280 

Lafayette 442 

Lake Forest 356 

Randolph-Macon 144 

Rochester University 312 

Richmond 328 

Rutgers 411 

Swarthmore 307 

University of Georgia 408 

Washington and Lee 375 

Washington and Jefferson 375 

Wesleyan University 338 

William and Mary 224 

This university is now enrolled among the number whose registration and work is 
noted and commented upon by educational and scientific publications. 

Our graduate work has been greatly advanced and improved. We stand No. 16 
among universities in the enrollment of graduate students from 1898 to 1908, and 
No. 12 in the list of higher degrees conferred during the last eleven years where the 
subjects have been in the natural and exact sciences. This graduate work is steadily 
growing and must in time be the crowning feature of university work in this capital 
city. 

The public white schools of the District of Columbia have registered for this year 
25,001 male and 27,738 female students, making a total of 52,739. Of this number 
4,381 are in the high schools and the McKinley Manual Training School; 224 are in 
the normal schools, making 4,605 white students in preparatory work. It is impos- 
sible to say how many of these students will pass into colleges, technical and profes- 
sional schools, but the percentage is steadily increasing, and it is a fair estimate to say 
that the public schools of the District will furnish 1,000 students for college, technical 
and professional training. When we add the number that are in private preparatory 
schools in the District of Columbia it will clearly appear that there is a great local 
demand and a large field for higher education in this city. To this local demand we 
must add the hundreds of men that come to Washington from all parts of the Union 
for higher and professional education. In view of all the facts it is fair and reasonable 
to say that this university, if well endowed and provided with ample laboratory 
facilities and buildings, would, in time, have four or five thousand students of the 
highest grade. 

It is impossible to do educational work of university grade without the expenditure 
of large sums of money in addition to the amount received from tuition fees. The 
averages show that the students' fees in the best universities do not pay more than 50 
per cent of the cost of the students' education; in many institutions the percentage 
paid by the students is less than 50 per cent. In our university the percentage paid 
by students' fees last year was 63 per cent. The total expenditure at Harvard Uni- 
versity last year, as reported, was 11,950,000, while the number of students was about 
four times the number in our own university. Our pay roll averages for the twelve 
months about $11,540 per month, and the other current payments average about |9,950 
per month for the year. 

a Excluding theological seminary. 



48 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

From the treasurer's report for the year ending August 31, 1908, it appears: 

Total expenses for year 1907-8 |255, 414. 73 

Total receipts from all sources 157^ 526. 52 

Deficit 97^ 888. 21 

This deficit was paid out of the general funds of the university, excepting the 
balance shown below, carried over into the present year. 

The treasurer's report of the budget for the present year, 1908-9, shows the following 
general results: 

Total expenses on present appropriations $250, 484. 00 

Total income from all sources 170, 452. 27 

Deficit in the budget, present year 80, 031. 73 

Carried over from the previous year 21, 502. 92 

Total amount to be provided for 101, 534. 65 

To meet these maturing obligations the university has cash in bank and 
liquid assets valued at 78, 622. 58 

Excess of current year's liabilities 22, 912. 07 

The total assets of the university, including the liquid assets above mentioned, are: 

Real estate occupied by all departments of the university |1, 009, 599. 93 

Less bonded debt 450, 000. 00 

Equity 659, 599. 93 

Other real estate 37, 5I8. 40 

Other assets, including bonds, notes, equipment, books, furniture, 

fixtures, etc., pledges, and cash on hand 150, 831. 55 

Total net assets 847, 949. 88 

In addition the university holds trust funds, the income to be applied to educational 
work and other purposes, amounting to 188,740.91. 

It is apparent that the university can not go forward on its present policy of ad- 
vanced work, with increasing numbers of students, without a provision for the annual 
deficit. The liquid funds of the university will be exhausted this year. The results 
of the policy adopted and put in force in 1905 have demonstrated that there is a large 
and growing demand in the city of Washington for higher education of the best quality, 
and that it is possible, with proper facilities, for this nonsectarian institution to carry 
on the work successfully if supplied with the necessary funds. The question now 
before us is, Shall we turn back and forsake the cause for which we have labored and 
sacrificed during the last few years? The promise of great success, born of educa- 
tional advance over financial obstacles unprecedented in the history of any other 
university, is before our very eyes. The university bears the most honored name in 
American history, the name of a man whose character and life are revered and loved 
by all Americans and by peoples of every civilized race. Washington saw the need, 
and labored for the establishment of an institution of learning in this city. To him 
the motive was patriotism, and this motive may now be added to what has already 
been presented regarding the demand here for a university. 

I can not present this thought better than to quote the words of the distinguished 
educator and diplomat, Dr. Andrew D. White, contained in a letter written by him 
to me under date of January 14, 1908. He says: 

"I hope that you will bear in mind what to my way of thinking is the most im- 
portant consideration in the whole matter. 

"It is not that such a remarkable body of scientific men and such a mass of scientific 
work are already in action at Washington; nor is it that such noble libraries and 
laboratories and collections are already there in existence; nor is it that the place 
itself would attract professors and lecturers perhaps more than any other that could 
be named ; nor is it that there are so many young men and young women drawn there 
by service in the various departments; all these are exceedingly weighty arguments, 
but all of them together are outweighed in my mind by the political argument, which 
was the one presented by Washington himself, namely, that at the federal city young 
men from North and South could be brought together for scholarly purposes in far 
greater numbers and to better advantage than at any other place which could be 
named. 



GEORGE WASHIISrGTOlsr UNIVERSITY. 49 

"I feel deeply that more would be done to promote unity of feeling between North 
and South by the friendships thus promoted and by the ideas thus developed by all 
these young men in common than could be accomplished in any other way; and 
as I look to the perfect restoration, or rather to the perfect establishment of hearty 
good feeling between North and South as a greater desideratum than anything else 
m our country, this aspect of the case is to me by far the most important." 

Can we meet the existing and increasing demand for a true university in Wash- 
ington? Is it possible to realize the hopes for a sincere and well-ordered institution 
of higher learning at the capital of this rich and mighty nation? Only the wise, the 
patriotic, and noble-minded men of wealth can answer these questions. 

Respectfully submitted . 

Charles Willis Needham, 

President. 



Exhibit 5. 



[Address of President Charles W. Needham at the opening of The George Washington University, Septem - 

ber 29, 1909.] 

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE DISTRICT. « 

To-day the university enters upon its eighty-ninth year, with an increased number 
of registered students over last year. There is something that comes out of the years 
that neither money nor labor can secure. Time softens the colors and adds beauty 
to works of art, and it gives tone and strength to institutions. Words can not define 
or interpret it, but every sensitive and true heart can feel it. There are some visible 
things that can be enumerated. 

First, there are the organized faculties, with able, trained teachers, fitted into the 
environment, working together with a common knowledge of the existing needs and 
opportunities, and with definite aims to accomplish the common purpose. Such an 
organization is of immense value, representing the collective power and genius of 
men, and the cumulative force of an organization which has had a continuity of 
existence for a long period of time. 

Next, there is the student body. Universities exist primarily for the students. 
A university without students is an organization without purpose or excuse for being. 
Every object and aim centers in the student body. An organized student body of 
fifteen hundred is a great possession; it is power capitalized. It takes time for an 
institution to secure a good body of students, for such a body of students is the result 
of good educational work. Many think that to establish a university requires only 
buildings, a faculty, advertising, and open doors. The fact is, 90 per cent of a large 
student body comes as the result of commendation of the work by the students them- 
selves. If they are pleased they say so and others come. To gain a large and stable 
body of students is the work of time. 

Again, back of the student body there are the alumni — in this institution six 
thousand — with then memories, associations, and attachments; their power and 
influence to advance the common good. The alumni are the most valuable con- 
stituency that an institution of learning can have. They are the spiritual constitution, 
the reserved power, the stored energy of the university. 

These three factors are the visible things tiiat come with the years, and can be 
acquired only by a long and honorable institutional life. 

Every institution must justify its being by its service to the community in which 
it exists. Not what it offers to do will determine its value, but, rather, whether it 
meets the needs of the community it tries to serve. 

During the summer it was my privilege to converse with many men regarding the 
demands in the District of Columbia for higher education. Most men have heretofore, 
I regret to say, considered this question from an outside standpoint — the needs of the 
country at large and not those of the District. This has led invariably to the conclu- 
sion that a university here should do only graduate work, and even that should be 
done within a very limited sphere. This view is true so far as the real needs of the 
country at large are concerned, but it does not touch the needs of this District. We 
have a large population, larger than some of the smaller States, and as such we are 
entitled to have our own peculiar and pressing needs considered in determining the 
character of a university to be supported here. 

a Reprint from the University Bulletin, October, 1909. 
45824—10 4 



50 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Thei'e are two large bodies of students permanently within the District demanding 
higher education, and both are increasing with the years. The first group appeals to 
every loyal resident of the District. It is composed of the young men and women 
who have no other residence. Their life is here and their education must be obtained 
here. They are the sons and daughters of army and navy officers, and men in the 
civil service of the United States. Many of these young people must get their college, 
and technical and professional training within the District or they can not obtain it 
at all. The District offers few opportunities to the rising generation. The desirable 
occupations offered in Washington are mainly governmental. These places are 
secured through the civil service examinations. These examinations are not open, 
as a rule, to residents of the District, but are reserved to the more favored residents in 
the States who possess the power of the ballot. The young men and young women 
reared within the District must, therefore, go out into the States to earn a livelihood. 
There they come into direct competition with young men and women who have been 
educated in the State and privately endowed universities. Without a college edu- 
tion they are rated as inferior and are seriously handicapped. If they secure simply 
a college education they are still at a disadvantage. Without specialization the 
pursuits of engineering, teaching, law, medicine, and other callings are closed to them. 

Last year we had 573 students registered in this university who had no other resi- 
dence than the District of Columbia. There are approximately 140,000 white people 
living in the District who are dependent upon salaries paid by the United States Gov- 
ernment. A large number of these men, fathers of our young people, are college 
graduates, and the mothers are highly educated women. These parents are anxious 
that their sons and daughters should have a college education. But salaries, ranging 
mainly from one thousand to twenty-five hundred dollars, will hardly permit the send- 
ing of one or more of the family out of the District to secure college and professional 
education. The cost of sending a young man away to college will average about 
11,000 per year. This amount, where the salary is small, makes it almost impossible 
to give a young man or woman a complete education, especially if there be more than 
one in the family to be educated. This body of students, for the college and profes- 
sional schools, is of unusually high grade and should, when considered with the neces- 
sities existing here, appeal strongly to all who intelligently consider the need for an 
institution of higher learning in this District. The material and moral well-being of 
our sons and daughters here demand a university that serves the District by giving 
sound training in collegiate, technical, and professional schools of university grade. 
While many from the States will come here to attend such a university, it is, after all, 
a District problem. The people outside will not solve it for us. Washingtonians must 
clearly apprehend the situation and the demands, and press strongly for an institution 
that meets all of these needs, one that will thoroughly educate our young people for 
the higher walks of life. 

There is also another body of students located within the District, who must obtain 
their professional education here if they secure it at all. I refer to those who are 
employed in the departments of the Government or as secretaries to Representatives, 
committees, executive officers, and public men. The employment of these men is 
of such a nature, and their hours of employment are so well regulated, that they have 
at their disposal considerable free time, which they can use in perfecting their educa- 
tion. Many of them come here with their college course incomplete and they desire 
to complete it. The most of them, however, are men who have jjursued their educa- 
tion to the point of entering professional or technical schools. 

There are two motives impelling this class of students to higher education. Many 
do not desire to make their emijloyment here a permanent life work, but desire to fol- 
low it during a few years of their young manhood to enable them to secure a good pro- 
fessional training. As soon as this is obtained they go out into the States, and enter the 
professions, become active in civic affairs,and if well trained, develop into the best 
citizens. They have felt the impulse and studied the movements of national and inter- 
national life. They go back to their homes, carrying with them this influence and 
spirit, and many of them will become the public servants of the people. Others are 
fitting themselves for higher and better work in the government service. They seek 
advancement through the improvement of their talents. This motive has been encour- 
aged in other nations, especially in Germany, by making it possible for the young men 
in the public service to take university courses in order that they may become more 
efficient men. 

If this body of men secure any education it must necessarily be in the city of Wash- 
ington. They have not time to go elsewhere. There is but one question regarding 
these men, and that is, shall they have as good an education here in professional and 
technical schools as is given to university students elsewhere? Many are men of high 
order, remarkably active and efficient in every way and, as noted, will become posi- 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 51 

tive factors in determining future governmental policies of the several States and of the 
United States. These men ought to be educated in the most thorough way, especially 
in the political sciences and in the professions. Of this large body of students too many, 
it is true, seek degrees rather than thorough knowledge and intellectual discipline, 
but there is a large minority who sincerely desire the best education and are willing 
to give additional years to it. To all who have to do with university education in the 
District of Columbia and to the noble givers to educational enterprises, I submit this 
question: Is it not of the greatest importance to the future of this country that these 
men be given the best university training? 

These two bodies of students to which I have referred, residents of the District of 
Columbia, and compelled to obtain their education here, are quite sufficient to m-aintain 
a true university of the highest order. I do not exaggerate when I say that such a 
university, properly equipped with buildings, laboratories, and other facilities, will 
have a student body of three or four thousand without drawing upon the clientele of 
any other institution of learning. 

In view of these local needs of the District of Columbia, we may well ask, What are 
the aims and the work of the George Washington University? 

1. College of arts and sciences. — We are maintaining a college of liberal arts. This 
work is fundamental to all higher education. It provides the cultural training that 
gives a man the control of his intellectual faculties; the history of the intellectual 
development of civilized men the finest ideals and the broadest views of hum.an life. 
It is the college that in the highest and truest sense makes one a man of the world. It 
should teach something in every field of human knowledge and provide thorough 
education along as many lines as its resources will permit. We have gradually broad- 
ened the opportunities for students in the college by furnishing, in addition to our 
excellent courses in the old lines of college education, courses in the modern sciences; 
and we have provided teachers in these lines who are specialists in the subjects taught. 
With our resources it is impossible to offer as many courses as are offered in larger 
and better endowed colleges, but we have endeavored to place at the disposal of our 
students a good teacher in every field of education covered in the best colleges. With 
better facilities and more endowment, this university should offer more work and our 
teachers should not be required to teach as many hours per week as they are now 
required to do. It is not enough to have good teachers, but we should give to these 
teachers the opportunity to keep their minds fresh and active, renewing them con- 
tinually through study and research work. This requires that the teacher should 
have some time at his disposal outside of the class-room hours and the tim.e required 
to make preparation for the class. The college, with its 300 students doing excellent 
work, is in need of liberal endowments. 

2. College of engineering and mechanic arts. — In this strenuous age, with few excep- 
tions, no man can enter the desirable positions in the industrial world without special 
technical training. It is our aim to provide for the District of Columbia a college of 
engineering and mechanic arts, doing work of college grade. This field is growing 
larger every year, calling more urgently for trained men. It furnishes opportunities 
for higher employment, of which we can ill afford to deprive our young men who are 
compelled to go out from the District into the States to find remunerative employ- 
ment. A well-equipped and endowed college of the mechanic arts is as essential in 
the District of Columbia as it is in any other community. We have the very best 
student material and nearly 200 already registered in these courses. Our facilities 
are inadequate, but the earnest men in our faculty are striving with all the energy and 
ambition possible to give these students the technical knowledge that will be helpful 
in making them efficient and self-supporting members of society. 

3. Division of architecture . — Another branch of our work is the division of architec- 
ture. This is one of the finest of the fine arts, as well as one of the most useful of 

. employments. It has been said that a people pass out of savagery when men become 
carpenters, and they pass into the highest civilization when carpenters become 
architects. The growing demand throughout the country for trained men in this line 
of employment offers special inducements to young men of fine quality and attain- 
ments. The opportunities for the study of architecture in the city of Washington 
are very great; the best examples of our colonial architecture are to be found in this 
vicinity. We already have 60 men in these courses, and with proper facilities and 
additional teachers we could soon double, and I think quadruple, that number. 

4. Teachers' college. — In 1906 Congress passed an act for the reorganization of the 
public schools of the District of Columbia, in which it was provided that new appointees 
to positions in the high schools and normal schools should have had a college education 
and pass the examinations prescribed by the board of education. Among other 
subjects the board of education prescribed for examination were psychology and 
pedagogy. One of the results of this excellent legislation was to close the doors of 



52 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

positions in the high school to young men and women of the District, unless this 
required education was fui-nished them here. They must secure it here if they seciu:e 
it at all. Our college of liberal arts meets the first requhement, and to meet the 
second we began the establishment of a teachers' college, putting in courses in the 
requu-ed subjects of psychology and pedagogy. This work is not as extensive as it 
should be, but it is thorough and excellent and provides for our young people the 
education which is required by the statute and it will enable them to secure and more 
ably perform the duties of teachers in the high schools. The work in the teachers' 
college is based upon two years of college work; the technical courses coming in the 
third and fom-th years, leading to a bachelor's degree and a teacher's diploma. 

5. Political sciences. — Of the large body of students here there are many who desire 
to take special work in the political sciences, fitting themselves the better for service 
in all branches of government. This body of students includes those who hope to 
become legislators and executives in the States, and those who would enter the home 
and foreign service of the nation. Here, where the great functions of government are 
being exercised daily, where the influence of these activities is felt and where the 
data that need to be studied are found in theh original sources, the student has an 
opportunity to study the political sciences not equaled in any other place in the 
United States. We, therefore, have established the college of the political sciences, 
with a two-year undergraduate course; requhing for admission two years of college 
work. This enables those who are pursuing an undergraduate course to put the 
emphasis of their work in the thii'd and fourth years upon the political sciences. This 
college also offers two years of graduate work to those who have a bachelor's degree. 
In this college we have gathered a few well-equipped and most earnest teachers; they 
have come to us from the best institutions of learning in the country, after pursuing 
specialized graduate courses, having also had experience as teachers. This work has 
received some generous contributions and has already accumulated a very good 
working library. What we need is its permanent endowment to an extent that will 
enable us to enlarge the faculty and increase the number of com'ses offered in order 
to meet the growing demand for this education at the national capital. 

This completes the circle of the undergraduate v/ork which the George Washington 
University is now doing and in which it has registered over 600 students. 

6. The faculty of graduate studies. — There is one field of education about which all 
agree. Those outside as well as those within the District unite in saying that this 
capital city has unusual facilities for the pursuit of graduate study. The research 
student finds here rich stores of original matter that can not be found in any other 
city. Our libraries and museums and other storehouses of knowledge in many of the 
departments of the Government are a constant and drawing attraction to the scholars 
of our own and other lands. No university is complete without its faculty of graduate 
studies. This department of our work is steadily growing, both in numbers and in 
its reputation for good work. In the faculty there are men of national reputation 
doing noble work in the sciences, and many of them are on the outposts discovering 
new knowledge. Last year we had over 100 in this division of our work, and the 
registration at the present time gives promise that this year we shall have an equal 
number. No division of educational work appeals more widely or more strongly to 
people of the whole country for maintenance and generous support than does this 
work of the graduate faculty. 

7. The lau) school. — The Speaker of the House of Representatives, in a public address, 
stated that during his public life he had brought to Washington over 30 young men 
who had taken courses in law in this university. Other public men have been 
doing likewise. The university authorities some time ago felt impelled to provide 
for the District of Columbia a law school that should be equal to the best schools in 
the country. A policy was therefore adopted gradually to recast and improve this 
work. The courses were enlarged, the standards of admission raised, trained teachers 
employed giving their whole time to the work, and new methods of instruction, which 
required much more work from the students, were adopted. Recognizing the differ- 
ence in the two groups of students to which I have refen*ed, we now have a three-year 
course of fourteen hours per week, leading to the bachelor of laws degree for full-day 
students. For those employed part of the day, we require four years of work, with 
ten or eleven hours per week, aggregating forty-two hours in four years, for the bach- 
elor of laws degree. By thus limiting the class-room hours, the students giving only 
a part of their time are enabled to make the full preparation required for their class 
hours, and the standard of the work and the value of the degree are upheld. This 
policy was adopted two years ago, and it is worthy of note that at the last meeting of 
the Association of American Law Schools, composed of 38 of the best law schools in 
the country, a like provision was adopted as a requirement for all its members granting 
the bachelor of laws degree. We are steadily growing toward the ideal which we 



GEORGE WASHINGTOIST UNIVERSITY. 53 

have set before us, and while the number of students in this school was reduced by 
these higher requirements, a new growth has begun that will carry us beyond the 
registration of former years, under the old method of didactic lectures. There is a 
sound body of students here who want the best education in law, and the number is 
sufficient to maintain a school of the first order in the District of Columbia. 

8. The medical school. — We have also created a new ideal for the medical school and 
are upon the way toward realizing it. Didactic lectures have been largely supplanted 
by the laboratory and clinical methods. The adoption of these methods requires 
the student to give his days to the work, and we are, therefore, registering only full- 
day students at the present time. Thoroughly trained scientific teachers have been 
employed for the laboratory courses, and the professors in medicine and in surgery 
have adopted the clinical method of teaching. The standards of admission and 
work have been raised, and while this advance has, as in other departments, reduced 
the number of registered students, we believe that in the long run the university will 
greatly benefit by the higher efficiency and professional standing of its graduates in 
medicine. 

In connection with this work we have a dental department, a college of pharmacy, 
and a college of veterinary medicine, the last two colleges being upon independent 
financial foundations and management, but affiliated with the university. _ These 
colleges are offering to the young men of the District excellent education in these 
lines and are fitting them for employments which offer many desirable positions. 

I might dwell longer upon these branches of our work. I desire simply to present 
them as showing the sincere effort of the George Washington 'University to meet the 
real demands in the District of Columbia for collegiate and technical and professional 
education of university grade and to show that we are trying to serve this community 
and furnish to the hundreds of young men and young women in the District oppor- 
tunities for education which will put them above the ordinary employments into 
those fields of human endeavor which are giving to America to-day its best civilization. 



Exhibit 6. 
Estimate of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1910. 

RECEIPTS. 

From students: 

Graduate studies $6, 000. 00 

College of arts and sciences 18, 550. 00 

College of engineering 16, 180. 00 

Architecture 3, 550. 00 

Political sciences 5, 450. 00 

Teachers' college 4,020.00 

Medicine 18,250.00 

Dentistry 3, 700. 00 

Law 26, 000. 00 

■ $101, 700. 00 

From endowments: 

Powell (net) 1,600.00 

Investment A 1, 041. 00 

Ordronaux 200.00 

Cooper 450. 00 

National Park Seminary 20. 00 

3, 311. 00 

From Corcoran fund 640. 00 

From contributions: 

For prizes 50. 00 

For political sciences 6, 600. 00 

For school at Athens 200. 00 

6, 850. 00 

From dormitories 2, 500. 00 

From miscellaneous: 

Halls 500. 00 

National College of Veterinary Medicine: 

For matriculations 175. 00 

For teaching 500. 00 

Dental infirmary 400. 00 

Sale of stationery 405. 00 

1, 980. 00 



54 



GEOEGE WASHIISTGTON UNIVERSITY. 



From Univei'sity hospital : 

Pay patients $37, 980. 00 

Board of lady managers 2, 000. 00 

Board of Charities 3, 000. 00 



Salaries of the teaching staff: 

Graduate studies 

Arts and sciences 

Engineering 

Architecture 

Political sciences 

Teachers' college 

Medicine 

Dentistry 

Law 



EXPENDITURES. 

Educational. 



Fellowships and scholarships: 

Fellowships 

Scholarships on foundations $1, 000. 00 

Scholarships not on foundations 200. 00 



$4, 280. 00 

21, 000. 00 
9, 950. 00 
3, 180. 00 

11, 660. 00 
4, 800. 00 
7, 805. 00 
2, 850. 00 

22, 525. 00 



1,000.00 



1, 200. 00 



Libraries : 

Salaries — 

Arts and sciences 1, 880. 00 

Teachers' college 50. 00 

Medicine 150. 00 

Law 620. 00 



Books — 

Arts and sciences 

Medicine 

Law 



800. 00 
500. 00 
500. 00 



Laboratories : 

Chemistry (arts and sciences) 

Mineralogy (arts and sciences) 

Biology (arts and sciences) 

Physics (arts and sciences) 

Psychology (teachers) 

Electrical engineering (engineering) . . . 
Mechanical engineering (engineering) . . 

Civil engineering (engineering) 

Anatomy (medicine) 

Bacteriology and pathology (medicine) 

Chemistry (medicine) , 

Physiology (medicine) 

Histology (medicine) 

Dental infirmary (dentistry) , 



Convocations and commencement expenses 

Dormitories: 

Table supplies, domestic and household expenses. 
Prizes: 

On foundations 

Not on foundations 



Furniture and fixtures 

University hospital : 

Salaries 

Medical and surgical supplies. 

Equipment 

Table supplies 

House expenses 



2, 700. 00 



1, 800. 00 

1, 000. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
300. 00 
150. 00 
300. 00 
300. 00 
300. 00 
400. 00 
500. 00 
200. 00 
500. 00 
100. 00 
400. 00 



1285. 00 
265. 00 



$42, 980. 00 
159, 961. 00 



88, 050. 00 



2, 200. 00 



4, 500. 00 



4, 650. 00 
1, 500. 00 

3, 000. 00 



550. 00 
500. 00 



44, 700. 00 



GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 55 

Maintenance of buildings: 
University Hall — 

Wages 11,477.50 

Fuel 1,200.00 

Electric light 900.00 

Gas 350.00 

Repairs 500.00 

Sundries 300. 00 

— 14,727.50 

Law Hall — 

Wages 285. 00 

Fuel 20. 00 

Electric light 450. 00 

Gas 

Repairs 50. 00 

Sundries 100.00 

905. 00 

Medical hall: 

Wages 1,290.00 

Fuel 2, 000. 00 

Electric light 1, 200. 00 

Gas 200.00 

Repairs 300. 00 

Sundries 300. 00 

5, 290. 00 

University Annex : 

Wages 915. 00 

Fuel 750.00 

Electric light 240.00 

Gas 320. 00 

Repairs 100. 00 

Rent 2. 400. 00 

Sundries 100. 00 

$4, 825. 00 
Political sciences hall: 

Wages 225. 00 

Fuel 125. 00 

lights 125. 00 

Rent 1, 800. 00 

2, 275. 00 

18, 022. 50 

Advertising 1, 000. 00 

Printing (including catalogue and bulletins) 2, 525. 00 

Total educational 171, 197. 50 

Adviinistration. 

Salaries of officers of the university (president, secretary, 

treasurer, and auditor) |10, 750. 00 

Salaries of stenographers, clerks, and bookkeepers 5, 245.- 00 

Stationery and supplies 700. 00 

Postage 830. 00 

Taxes on property not used for education 500. 00 

Telephones 700. 00 

Contribution to school at Athens 200. 00 

Contribution to athletic association 450. 00 

Rental of athletic field. 300. 00 

Traveling expenses 1, 000. 00 

Miscellaneous : 

Janitors' supplies, insurance, debaters' expenses, freights . 
and expressage, surety bonds, towel service, repair 

materials, safe, deposit box, etc 1, 950. 00 

Total administration 22, 625. 00 



56 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Interest on debt. 

Interest on bonded and floating debt , $21, 591. 66 

Total expenditures 215, 414. 16 

RECAPITULATION. 

Total receipts (p. 13) $159, 961. 00 

Total expenditures: 

Educational (p. 15) |171, 197. 50 

Administration (p. 16) 22, 625. 00 

Interest (p. 17) 21, 591. 66 

215,414.16 

Total deficit 55, 453. 16 

Deducting the item of interest 21, 591. 66 



Leaves deficit for education and administration 33, 861. 50 

The total expenditures for the year 1908-9 were $249,278.04. The budget for 1909-10 
fixes the expenditures at $215,414.16, a reduction of $33,868.88 in expenditures over 
last year. 

In determining the budget of the present year the board of trustees, in order to be 
conservative, estimated the income of the present year at $15,676.98 below that of last 
year. The registration of students at the date of this publication warrants the belief 
that the income of the present year will equal that of last year. 



EQUIPMENT OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

[Table of contents of the schedule attached.] 
Laboratories. 

Exhibit A. 

Engineering and mechanic arts : 

Physical $4, 509. 50 

Electrical _. 4, 786. 28 

Drafting and civil engineering 1, 788. 00 

Mechanical engineering 7, 438. 45 

$18,522.23 

Exhibit B. 
Architecture : 

Drawing rooms 197. 00 

Exhibit C. 

College of veterinary medicine : « 

General equipment 1, 165. 00 

Dissecting room 228. 00 

Veterinary surgery 790. 00 

Canine surgery 115. 00 

2, 298. 00 

Exhibit D. 
College of pharmacy: a 

Chemical 2, 353. 12 

Pharmacy 4, 628. 41 

— 6,981.53 

a This college is organized under the charter of the university, with a separate board 
of trustees, and owns its own equipment. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 57 

The following equipment is in other departments of the university in 
subjects taken by students of agriculture and the mechanic arts: 

Exhibit E. 
Arts and sciences: 

Biological, zoological, and botanical 1625. 00 

Geological 1, 107. 00 

Chemical 11, 940. 46 

113,672.46 

Exhibit F. 
Teachers' college: 

Psychological 168. 09 

Exhibit G. 
Medical department: 

Anatomical 3, 429. 25 

Histological 3, 307. 61 

Chemical 3, 484. 57 

Electro-therapeutic 730.00 

Physiological _. 3, 186. 88 

Bacteriological and pathological 7, 101. 42 

21, 239. 73 

Exhibit H. 
Dental department: 

Infirmary equipment 1, 760. 00 

Libraries. 

Exhibit I. 

Arts and sciences, law, medical, college of the political sciences, teachers', 
engineering, 45,064 volumes and pamphlets 37, 000. 00 

General equipvient. 

Exhibit J. 

Furniture and equipment used in administration and teaching 17, 541. 50 

Total value of laboratory equipment, laboratorj^ supplies, appara- 
tus and furniture used by the teaching staff in the educational 
work 119,380.54 

Note. — These schedules do not include furniture, fixtures, and equipment in the 
woman's building, the hospital, and the nurses' home, not used directly in teaching. 

Exhibit K. 

Actual class enrollment for the past three years in each subject taught in the depart- 
ments of engineering, architecture, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy. 

Exhibit L. 

Class enrollment in other subjects under the Morrill acts (see cii'cular letter of the 
Department of the Interior, Department of Education, November 26, 1900) taken by 
students in agriculture and the mechanic arts not included in Exhibit K. Some 
of the students in these subjects are in the college of liberal arts. 

Exhibit M. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the department of engineering 
and mechanic arts 19, 600 

Exhibit N. 
Salaries paid the individual professors in the division of architecture 2,392 



58 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY. 

Exhibit 0. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the college of veterinary medi- 
cine Net surplus. 

Exhibit P. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the college of pharmacy |2, 625 

salaries of teachers in other departments of the university in subjects 
taken by students of agriculture or the mechanic arts. 

Exhibit Q. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the department of arts and 
sciences |20, 870 

Exhibit R. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the college of the political 
sciences 11, 660 

Exhibit S. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in teachers' college 4, 800 

Exhibit T. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the department of medicine... 7, 605 

Exhibit U. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the department of dentistry. . . 2, 895 

Exhibit V. 

Salaries paid the individual professors in the department of graduate 
studies 4, 280 

Exhibit W. 

Salaries paid the librarian and assistants in the university and depart- 
mental libraries 2, 870 

Total 69. 597 

Exhibit X. 

Charges made students for laboratory fees in the departments of engineering, archi- 
tecture, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy. 



Exhibit A. 

BUILDINGS AND ROOMS FOR THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MECHANIC ARTS. 

This college uses two buildings, 1528 and 1530 I street, each 20 by 55 feet, four 
stories high, with basement and attic. Its classes in physics, chemistry, electricity, 
geology, English, French, German, and some of its classes in mathematics meet in 
rooms in the main building, comer of H and Fifteenth streets. Its laboratories for 
physics, chemistry, and electricity, its dynamo, gas engine and steam engine labora- 
tories, and its room for shopwork are also in the main building, H and Fifteenth streets. 
Its cement laboratory and its drawing-rooms are at 1528 and 1530 I street. 

Openings between the two buildings on I street have been made in the basement, 
the first floor, and the third floor. These buildings contain the following rooms: 

Basement: Cement- testing rooms; students indoor rifle range. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 59 

First floor: Ofiices of the dean and of three instructors; students' social room; one 
recitation room. 

Second floor: Library, three recitation rooms. 

Third floor: Instructor's office; four drafting rooms. 

Fourth floor: One drafting room; wireless telegraph and telephone room; instructor's 
room; three rooms not now in use. 

In addition the buildings contain suitable toilet and cloak rooms, and instrument 
and locker closets. 

Each recitation room contains about 380 square feet of floor area, and is provided 
with suitable blackboards, and will accommodate 40 students at one time. 

The drawing-rooms have a total floor area of about 1,550 square feet. 

When occasion calls for it, the present unused rooms will be used and will provide 
additional class rooms and drawing-rooms. 

During the session of 1909-10 the rooms have been used as follows: 

Class room No. 1. 

Mathematics 9, three hours (first term), 25 students. 

Mathematics 11, three hours (second term), 23 students. 

Mathematics 20, three hours, 36 students. 

Mathematics 21, three hours, 18 students. 

Mathematics 41, two hours, 4 students. 

Civil engineering 3, one hour (second term), 5 students. 

Civil engineering 4, two hours, 9 students. 

Civil engineering 20, two hours, 6 students. 

Civil engineering 23, three hours, 4 students. 

Civil engineering 24, three hours, 6 students. 

Applied mathematics 21, four hours, 6 students. 

Class room No. 2. 

Applied mathematics 20, four hours (first term), 24 students. 
Applied mathematics 22, four hours (second term), 19 students. 
Civil engineering 21, two hours, 5 students. 
Civil engineering 22, three hours, 13 students. 

Class room No. 3. 

Civil engineering 1, two hours, 25 students. 

Civil engineering 2, two hours, 3 students. 

Civil engineering 11, two hours (first term), 11 students. 

Graphics 8 I, two hours, 11 students. 

Graphics 8- II, two hours, 22 students. 

Class room No. 4- 

Electrical engineering 6, two hours (second term), 10 students. 

Electrical engineering 7, three hours, 4 students. 

Electrical engineering 22, two hours, 2 students. 

Electrical engineering 23, two hours, 6 students. 

Electrical engineering 26, 27, two hours, 5 students. 

Mechanical engineering 1, two hours, 15 students. 

Mechanical engineering 20, three hours, 12 students. 

Drawing rooms: As at present arranged the drawing rooms accommodate 46 students 
at one time. 

During the present session the following students have worked in the drawing 
rooms: 

Graphics 1, six hours a week, three sections, 49 students. 

Graphics 2, six hours a week, three sections, 13 students. 

Graphics 8, two hours a week, two sections, 33 students. 

Graphics 10, two hours a week, two sections, 14 students. 

Civil engineering 20, four hours, 6 students. 

Civil engineering 21, two hours, 5 students. 

Civil engineering 22, four hours, 13 students. 

Civil engineering 23, four hours, 4 students. 

Civil engineering 24, two hours, 6 students. 

Mechanical engineering 1, two hours, 15 students. 

Mechanical engineering 7, two hours, 1 student. 



60 GEORGE WASHIl^GTOlSr UNIVERSITY. 

The drawing rooms are open from 9 a. m to 10 p. m. Students are required to be 
present at specified times, when instructors are present to supervise and instruct, but 
are allowed to work at other hours also. The large classes are divided into sections, 
and with increased attendance, additional sections could be formed. This would 
enable us to provide for about four times the present number of students. 

Cement laboratory : This laboratory has had 9 students this year, and can accommodate 
10 at one time. A total of 30 students could be provided for in this laboratory. 

Wirelesss telegraph and telephone rooms: Three hundred and sixty square feet. 
These have been used by instructors and advanced students for research and test. 

ROOMS IN THE MAIN BUILDING, CORNER FIFTEENTH AND H STREETS, USED FOR 

ENGINEERING CLASSES. 

Room 1: Dynamo laboratory, 600 square feet floor area. 

Room 2: Lecture room, used also by laboratory students in physics and electrical 
measurements. It has 1,000 square feet of floor area, and will seat 100 persons. 

Room 2a: Laboratory room for physics and electrical measurements, used also as a 
class room when necessary; 250 square feet. 

Standardizing room: Sixty square feet. 

Gas-engine laboratory: Four hundred and eighty square feet. 

Mechanical laboratory and shops: One thousand five hundred and fifty square feet. 

Lecture room 2 has been used during 1909-10 as follows: 

Physics 1, three hours a week, 61 students. 

Physics 3, three hours a week, 11 students. 

Electrical engineering 1, three hours (first term), 7 students. 

Electrical engineering 2, three hours (second term), 9 students. 

Electrical engineering 21, three hours, 3 students. 

Room 2a has iDeen used by electrical engineering 21, one hour, 3 students; electrical 
engineering 3, two hours (first term), 3 students. 

Rooms 2, 2a, and 3 have been used by laboratory students as follows: 

Physics 2, first section, four hours, 16 students. 

Physics 2, second section, four hours, 32 students. 

Electrical engineering 4, six hours (first term), 7 students. 

Dynamo laboratory has been used as follows: 

Electrical engineering 5, six hours, 7 students. 

Electrical engineering 24, six hours, 3 students. 

Gas-engine laboratory and mechanical-engineering laboratory and shops have been 
used as follows: 

Mechanical engineering 9, six hours (second term), 3 students. 

Mechanical engineering 10, six hours, 3 students. 

Mechanical engineering 22, 25, two hours, 5 students. 

Mechanical engineering 4, four hours, 4 students. 

Mechanical engineering 5, six hours, 3 students. 

STUDENTS WHO CAN BE PROVIDED FOR IN THESE LABORATORIES. 

The equipment and room provided will permit of sections of the following sizes: 

Physics 2, 30 students. 

Electrical engineering 4, 20 students. 

Electrical engineering 5, 8 students. 

Electrical engineering 24, 8 students. 

Mechanical engineering 4, 8 students. 

Mechanical engineering 5, . 

Mechanical engineering 9 and 10, 18 students. 

By grouping students in a number of sections it would be possible to provide for 
from four to six times as many laboratory students as were registered this year. 

All engineering students are required to take courses in general chemistry, in 
qualitative analysis, and in metallurgy. The equipment and facilities for this work 
are described under the report fi'om the professor of chemistry in the college of arts. 

The following have been registrations of engineering students in courses not pre- 
viously listed in detail in this report: 

English 1, three hours a week, 14 students. 

English 2, three hours a week, 27 students. ■ 

Chemistry 1, three hours a week, 30 students. 

Chemistry 7, six hours a week, 28 students. 

Chemistry 6, one hour a week, 24 students. 

French, three hours a week, 40 students. 



GEOBGB WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 61 

German, three hom-s a week, 24 students. 
Business law, three hours a week (second term), 4 students. 
Mathematics, three hoiurs a week, 43 students. 
Geology, one hour a week, 12 students. 

During the session of 1909-10 the engineering students have taken courses in sub- 
jects as follows: 

Students. 

Applied mathematics 24 

Chemistry 58 

Civil engineering 51 

Electrical engineering 29 

French 40 

Geology 12 

German 24 

Graphics 85 

Mathematics 113 

Mechanical engineering 31 

Physics 49 

Other subjects 12 

Except in lecture courses, it is inadvisable to have classes of more than from 30 to 
40 students, but of course large numbers of students can be provided for by forming 
additional sections. At the present time there are two or more sections in all courses 
taken by engineering students in mathematics, drawing, descriptive geometry, 
English, French, and German, and in laboratory physics and chemistry. 

A study of the rooms that can be used by engineering classes and the equipment 
and rooms for drawing and laboratory work shows that by the formation of additional 
sections it would be possible to provide for from 500 to 600 engineering students. The 
total registration of engineering students for the session of 1909-10 has been 180. 

Inventory. 

laboratory and lecture apparatus for physics and electricity. 

24 meter rules $7. 20 

11 spring balances 15. 40 

5 spring balances 3. 00 

2 springs - 1. 00 

2 platform scales 11. 00 

4 small balances 5. 00 

3 jolly balances 24. 00 

1 jolly balance 3. 00 

1 chemical balance 70. 00 

1 chemical balance 40. 00 

1 chemical balance 25. 00 

2 chemical balances 20. 00 

1 chemical balance 5. 00 

3 sets weights 6. 00 

4 sets weights 16. 00 

2 sets weights 6. 00 

2 sets weights 4. 00 

2 sets weights 3. 50 

2 sets weights 1-50 

5 sets weights 2. 00 

2 nests iron weights 2. 00 

30 iron weights 12. 00 

12 brass weights 2. 40 

2 micrometer screws 6. 00 

3 universal pulleys 4. 20 

4 Vernier calipers , 8. 00 

1 Vernier caliper 1-50 

3 micrometer calipers 8. 40 

1 spherometer 6. 00 

5 spherometers 17. 50 

1 Vernier protractor 15. 00 

1 wire gauge 2. 50 

2 25-meter tapes 2. 50 

4 torsion apparatus 42. 00 



62 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 torsion apparatus |10. 00 

1 comparator, with 2 microscopes 50. 00 

2 rods for above 7. 00 

1 Kater pendulum 3.75 

1 beam compass 3. 00 

3 Archimedes principle apparatus 4. 00 

2 Hicks impact apparatus 10. 00 

1 impact apparatus 3. 00 

2 parallelogram of force apparatus 10. 00 

1 parallelogram of force apparatus 4. 00 

3 Youngs modulus apparatus 57. 00 

3 force tables 81. 00 

3 acceleration apparatus 120. 00 

2 Boyle's law apparatus 76. 00 

1 air-pressure apparatus 4. 00 

1 law of motion apparatus 2. 00 

4 spirit levels 1. 00 

1 spirit level .70 

1 set center of gravity apparatus 5. 00 

1 Atwood's machine ! 15. 00 

1 dividing engine 10. 00 

1 breaking strength apparatus 5. 00 

12 retort stands 20. 00 

3 tube stands 3. 00 

6 specific-gravity bottles 2. 10 

3 balancing column apparatus 3. 00 

1 aneroid barometer 5. 00 

1 siphon barometer 3. 50 

4 fountain in vacuo 8. 00 

1 Barlow's mill 2. 00 

8 hydrometer jars 5. 00 

2 hydrometers 1. 50 

2 Nicholson's hydrometers 2. 50 

1 set of capillary tubes and stand .75 

1 rotating apparatus and accessories 12. 00 

2 rotating apparatus 10. 00 

2 sets equilibrium tubes 3. 50 

1 pressure apparatus 1. 00 

6 pump models 15. 00 

1 air pump 20. 00 

1 Geryk air pump 50. 00 

1 Queen air pump 100. 00 

2 hand air pumps 9. 00 

2 sets demonstration pulleys 4. 00 

3 gyroscopes 10. 00 

7 bell jars 11. 00 

1 pressure of liquids apparatus 6. 00 

2 mercury shower apparatus 1.50 

2 compressed-air vessels 5. 00 

1 aspirator 2. 00 

1 seven-in-one apparatus 7. 00 

1 globe with stop cock 5. 00 

1 baroscope 6. 00 

1 Magdelburg hemispheres 8. 00 

2 vacuum lift cylinders 8. 00 

1 gas meter 25. 00 

1 guinea and feather tube 5. 00 

1 maximum density of water apparatus 4. 00 

1 electric tuning fork 13. 50 

32 tuning forks 36. 00 

1 set conical resonators 7. 00 

1 organ pipe 4. 00 

1 organ pipe 3. 50 

1 organ pipe 1. 50 

3 resonance tubes 16. 50 

3 resonance tubes 9. 00 

1 bell and resonators 3. 00 



GEOEGE WASHIlsrGTON UlsriVEKSITY. 63 

3 Kundt's apparatus |6. 00 

1 set Quincke's tubes 2. 00 

1 sensitive flame 2. 00 

1 gramophone 15. 00 

1 graphophone 15, 00 

1 graphophone, electric driven, with table (loan) 75. 00 

1 graphophone, cylinder shaver (loan) 25. 00 

1 set Chladni plates, brass 3. 00 

1 set Chladni plates, glass 1-40 

1 interference tube 1-00 

1 interference tube 4. 00 

1 spiral brass spring 1. 50 

1 set tin tubes 2. 00 

1 rose burner .75 

1 bell in vacuo 2. 50 

4 sonometers 20. 00 

2 sonometers 6. 00 

1 siren , 7. 00 

1 wind chest 7. 00 

1 tuning-fork apparatus . . . , 12. 00 

1 manometric- flame apparatus , 5. 00 

1 manometric flame apparatus 1. 00 

1 Trevelyan rocker 3. 00 

3 stop watchers .... 21. 00 

1 brass bow 1-00 

2 heat-expansion apparatus 2. 00 

6 linear expansion apparatus 21. 00 

2 ball and ring. .,..., 2. 00 

1 cryophorus , 1. 50 

2 compound bars 1. 50 

4 parabolic reflectors . 6. 00 

1 studentia calorimeter 25. 00 

1 calorimeter 5. 00 

2 calorimeters 20. 00 

14 calorimeter cups 5. 60 

1 drying oven 6. 00 

14 Bunsen burners 3. 50 

14 thermometers 8. 40 

4 air thermometers 5. 00 

2 air thermometers 10. 00 

1 differential thermometer 3. 00 

1 hygrodeik 5. 00 

6 hypsometers 12. 00 

2 Leslie cubes 3. 00 

1 radiometer 5. 00 

1 steam heater i 12. 00 

1 Mousson apparatus 8. 00 

2 ice molds 3. 00 

4 spectrometers 152. 00 

1 spectrometer 50. 00 

1 spectrometer 40. 00 

6 reading glasses 4. 50 

1 lens and stand 5. 00 

1 concave mirror and stand 5. 00 

1 polariscope 7. 00 

18 Iceland spar crystals 7. 00 

2 quarter-wave plates 4. 00 

16 selenite films 11. 00 

6 quartz plates 7. 50 

2 quartz prisms 11. 00 

2 Iceland spar prisms 11. 00 

1 Rochon prism 7. 00 

1 Wollaston prism 7. 00 

1 Foucault prism 12. 50 

1 Fresnel biprism 5. 00 

4 prism bottles 10. 00 

1 Porter thick lens 4. 00 



64 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 Porter rotating image lens |2. 00 

1 cyanine prism 4. 00 

1 simplex spectroscope 5. 00 

2 chromatic disks 5. 00 

1 zone plate 1. 50 

1 uranium nitrate cell 1. 00 

5 diffi'action gratings 25. 00 

1 cii-cular difeaction grating 3. 00 

12 prisms 6. 00 

1 Newton's rings 3. 00 

8 lenses 6. 00 

1 reading microscope 6. 00 

1 Bunsen photometer 4. 00 

1 telescope eyepiece 25. 00 

1 color-mixing slide 5. 00 

1 toiumaline tongs 2. 50 

4 concave and convex mirrors 8. 00 

2 cylindrical mirrors 1. 00 

1 cylindrical mirror 3. 00 

1 sextant 5. 00 

1 diffraction apparatus • 25. 00 

1 mirror illusion 2. 00 

1 reflection and refraction apparatus. . , 20. 00 

1 optical disk and accessories 30. 00 

1 rotating mirror 5. 00 

1 Michelson interferometer 140. 00 

1 sodium-flame apparatus 7. 00 

1 kinetoscope 2. 50 

1 stroboscope 5. 00 

1 photometer 9. 00 

1 optical bench and accessories 35. 00 

3 optical benches and accessories 90. 00 

1 polyprism 10. 00 

1 photometer (loan) 75. 00 

1 microscope 30. 00 

Platinum wire 5. 00 

6 lens holders 5. 00 

1 Coulomb torsion balance 12. 00 

1 Biot's hemispheres 4. 25 

1 electric chimes 2. 00 

1 electrostatic demonstration set 7. 00 

1 static electric machine 50. 00 

6 Leyden jars 6. 00 

1 hollow cylinder 2. 00 

4 electrophorus 8. 00 

4 cat 's fur 3. 00 

3 electroscopes 9. 00 

2 lodestones 1. 00 

16 magnets 2. 00 

10 compasses 2. 50 

4 magnetic needles and stands 4. 00 

1 Ampere's stand 17. 50 

1 magnet and current rotation 15. 50 

1 contracting helix 2. 00 

1 parallel-current apparatus 1. 50 

1 Arago's magnetic rotations 5. 50 

2 coils for induction experiments 13. 50 

1 hand magneto 10. 00 

1 primary and secondary coil 7. 00 

1 rotating electro-magnet 2. 00 

7 electro-magnets 14. 00 

1 current indicator 5. 00 

1 motor rotator 7. 00 

1 motor rotator 5. 00 

1 magnetometer 15. 00 

1 distribution-of-magnetism apparatus 8. 00 

1 induction coal 20. 00 



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1 Whenelt interrupter $10. 00 

1 experimental electro-magnet 10. 00 

1 demonstration induction coil . 5. 00 

3 induction coils 13. 50 

1 induction coil 16. 00 

1 induction coil 3. 00 

3 sets telegraph instruments 8. 00 

1 telegraph relay 3. 00 

3 electric bells 1. 50 

2 call boxes .50 

2 old Morse telegraph recorders 1. 00 

2 spark coils 4. 00 

1 thermopile 15. 00 

1 model of Gramime machine 2. 50 

1 galvanometer and reading telescope 22. 00 

1 lecture table galvanometer 10. 00 

4 galvanoscopes 12. 00 

1 tangent galvanometer 18. 00 

1 tangent galvanometer 8. 00 

1 tangent galvanometer 9. 00 

6 D' Arsonval galvanometers. ; 90. 00 

1 volt-ammeter 10. 00 

4 Plucker tubes 5. 00 

4 Geissler tubes 2. 00 

2 copper voltameters 9. 00 

5 electrolysis apparatus 28. 00 

4 telephone receivers 4. 00 

1 wireless telegraph set 20. 00 

2 fluorescopes 18. GO 

1 fluorescent glass globe 7. 00 

Batteries, and parts storage batteries 50. 00 

1 mica condenser 6. 00 

I i M. F. condenser 4. 80 

I I M. F. condenser 4. 40 

1 1 M. F. condenser 6. 00 

1 megohm 20. 00 

3 sets resistance spools 7. 50 

9 Ziegler resistance boxes 33. 00 

4 circular resistance boxes 7. 00 

1 circular Wheatstone bridge 12. 00 

3 resistance boxes 22. 50 

2 P. O. Wheatstone bridge - 70. 00 

4 P. 0. ^Mieatstone bridge 85. 00 

1 slide wire bridge 12. 00 

2 slide wire bridges 12. 00 

2 slide wire bridges 6. 00 

1 slide wire bridge 7. 00 

1 Queen testing set ^ 100. 00 

1 Wolf resistance box 90. 00 

1 Queen resistance box 10. 00 

5 commutators 4. 00 

1 50,000-ohm box 20. 00 

1 standard one-ohm coil 12. 50 

1 standard ten-ohm coil 15. 00 

8 ohm coils 8. 00 

1 Barlow's wheel - - - 4. 00 

1 automatic electric stereopticon, with vertical attachment, aperture disk, 

etc 200. 00 

1 electric reflectoscope 100. 00 

400 lantern slides 120. 00 

20 pounds glass tubing 9. 00 

Rubber tubing 10. 00 

Brass wire 1-00 

Connectors, pinch corks, etc 4. 00 

Hammer, saw, screw-drivers, wrench, pliers, brace and bits, nails, screws, 

punch, forceps, etc 8. 00 

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66 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

30 reagent bottles and chemicals |10. 00 

10 Florence flasks 2. 00 

5 funnels .50 

20 beakers 1. 50 

30 volumes laboratory manuals 30. 00 

Cork borers, cork press, corks 2. 00 

6 iron clamps 1. 50 

2 elevating stands 2. 50 

Evaporating dishes, mortars, pipette, watch glasses, sand bath, test-tube 

holders and cleaners 5. 00 

Total 4, 509. 50 

ELECTRICAL LABORATORY. 

1 15-horsepower 220-volt United States motor 300. 00 

Appliances with above motor 75. 00 

1 10-horsepower 220-volt Westinghouse motor "1 

2 4-kilowatt 220-volt Westinghouse dynamos I qk„ „„ 

1 3-horsepower 2-phase 200-volt Westinghouse motor | 

1 2-horsepower single-phase 200-volt Westinghouse motor J 

1 5-kilowatt 5-volt Hanson Van Winkle dynamo 200. 00 

1 5-kQowatt 220-volt Fort Wayne rotary converter 342. 00 

1 yj-kilowatt 220-volt 1,2, and 3 phase alternator 205. 00 

1 3-horsepower automobile series motor 35. 00 

1 ^-horsepower "Mather motor (loan) 25. 00 

1 3-horsepower Manchester motor 25. 00 

1 0.75-kilowatt Edison dynamo 25. 00 

1 series rheostat for series motor 5. 00 

1 Edison field rheostat (loan) 20. 00 

Line shaft, pulleys, bearings, belts, clutch, etc., used in dynamo motor 

testing 120. 00 

1 friction brake 20. 00 

3 friction brakes 8. 00 

Trestle for use with above 1. 00 

Bases for dynamos and motors 15. 00 

3 exhibition boards with samples of electrical appliances 15. 00 

1 exhibition board with samples of electrical appliances 3. 00 

2 exhibition boards with samples of electrical appliances 5. 00 

Miscellaneous assortment of armature coils and punchings 5. 00 

Collection of insulating materials 4. 00 

Wiring, material, and labor to the laboratories 125. 00 

Instruments. 

2 Weston type E ammeters with 10 shunts, 1-1, 3-10, 1-20, 2-50, 1-100, 1- 

200, 1-500 70. 00 

1 Weston voltmeter, 0-150, type E, with multiplier of 2 and 4 30. 00 

1 portable Weston voltmeter, double scale, 0-150 and 0-5 60. 00 

1 Weston ammeter, 0-15 50. 00 

1 Keystone ammeter, 0-15 10. 00 

1 Keystone voltmeter, 0-150 10. 00 

IQueen ammeter, 0-15, 0-50 10. 00 

1 Queen voltmeter 0-15, 0-75, 0-150 5. 00 

1 Thompson voltmeter, 0-575 5. 00 

1 Stanley synchronizer, lamp pattern 7. 00 

1 15- volt General Electric alternating-current voltmeter, type PI 19. 12 

1 150-300 volt General Electric voltmeter, PI 22. 11 

8 alternating-current ammeters. General Electric, PI 110. 80 

2 12-kilowatt General Electric P 1 wattmeters with multipliers 98. 40 

1 General Electric P 3 voltmeter with multiplier 44. 00 

1 Westinghouse power-factor meter with current and potential transformers 102. 06 

1 5-ampere Thompson integrating wattmeter (loan) 22. 00 

1 special flexible coupling for motor generator experiments 8. 00 

Thompson ammeter, switchboard type 5. 00 

Brush arc ammeter 3. 00 

Thompson lightning arrester 3. 00 



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Wurts lightning arrester |4. 00 

2 high-frequency coils, unmounted 2. 00 

1 alternating-current arc lamp 2. 00 

1 direct-current arc lamp (loan) 2. 00 

2 automatic circuit breakers 12. 00 

2 special resistance and 1 telephone receiver for use with curve tracer 2. 00 

1 extension cord 2. 50 

Switches, cut-outs, cords, wires, insulators, connectors, screws, etc., for 

use in dynamo and motor testing 10. 00 

3 3-kilowatt transformers 200. 00 

Electrostatic voltmeter 75. 00 

Stationary tachometer 50. 00 

3 spring balances 3. 00 

2 Goes wrenches "1 

3 screw-drivers I „ „ 

1 pair pliers ( -'^ 

1 knife. J 

3 speed indicators 7. 00 

Switchboard and testing table 50. 00 

Lamp banks with connections, 50 lamps 60. 00 

Special wiring for dynamos and motors 60. 00 

Stereopticon 25. 00 

Experimental arc lamp 2. 00 

Instrument case and shelving 25. 00 

10 student lockers 20. 00 

Tool box 2. 00 

3 stools 3. 00 

2 large experimental magnets (loan) 75. 00 

Standardizing room. 

1 Leeds-Northrup Type K potentiometer 

1 15-ampere shunt 

1 volt box } 305. 00 

1 Weston standard cell 

4 cells storage battery 

2 cells gravity battery . . ' 30. 00 

Lamp bank, switchboard, connections, shelving, etc 25. 00 

2 stools 2. 00 

Volt-ammeter (vehicle type) 25. 00 

Wireless telegraph room. 

1-horsepower Lundell motor 50. 00 

1-kilowatt 2-phase generator 50. 00 

2 D' Arsonval galvanometers 25. 00 

1 Thompson galvanometer 50. 00 

1 resistance box 5. 00 

1 ^-kilowatt transmitting link coil and condenser |15. 00 

1-kilowatt transmitting link coil spark gap 75. 00 

1 1-kilowatt 30,000-volt transformer a 50. 00 

1 aerial switch 5. 00 

1 loose couple receiving set complete 50. 00 

2 head telephones 15. 00 

1 switchboard for motor generator set 10. 00 

2 tables 6. 00 

Totals: 

Dynamos and motors 2, 528. 00 

Instruments, etc 1, 465. 28 

Standardizing room 387. 00 

Wireless telegraph 406. 00 

Grand total 4, 786, 28 



«Loan. 



68 ■ GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 

DRAFTING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING. 

6 iron base drafting tables |48. 00 

20 wooden drafting tables 60. 00 

6 sets of lockers and board racks 220. 00 

File case, neostyle, globe 25. 00 

Chest of drawers 30. 00 

Drafting instruments 20. 00 

3 transits 600. 00 

1 transit 25. 00 

2 levels...: 200.00 

1 level 25. 00 

1 sextant 90. 00 

1 compass 20. 00 

1 plane table 75. 00 

Cement testing apparatus 100. 00 

Hand levels, tapes, chains, pins, rods 100. 00 

1 planimeter 35. 00 

1 artificial horizon 10. 00 

1 set railroad curves 50. 00 

1 Thatcher machine 30. 00 

1 set plines 25. 00 

Total 1,788.00 

MECHANICAL LABORATORY. 

Westinghouse gas engine, 50-horsepower direct connected to 25-kilowatt 

alternating current direct current generator 1, 800. 00 

Air compressor and tanks, part of above 25. 00 

2-horsepower Riker motor used with air compressor 25. 00 

2 ammeters 

1 voltmeter alternating current, wall pattern 44. 00 

Switches and wiring 40. 00 

Switchboard ' 75. 00 

Submerged wire rheostat 25. 00 

9-horsepower White & Middleton gasoline engine 600. 00 

10-gallon fuel oil tank in use with above 10. 00 

10-gallon fuel oil tank not in use 6. 00 

5-gallon gasoline tank, portable 2. 00 

50-pound platform scales 5. 00 

150-pound spring balances 4. 00 

100-pound spring balances 3. 00 

Prony brake on Westinghouse engine 25. 00 

Prony brake on W. & M. gasoline engine 15. 00 

Piping for engines 50. 00 

3 old tables 3. 00 

Westinghouse Junior steam engine, 25-horsepower (old) « 150. 00 

A. & S. 60-horsepower steam engine (old) 350. 00 

12-horsepower Shepherd engine (new) 300. 00 

30-kilowatt W. T. H. dynamo (old) 250.00 

^-ton refrigerating machine. 900. 00 

40-horsepower vertical steam boiler (old) 350. 00 

15-kilowatt Westinghouse dynamo 300. 00 

3-horsepower 220-volt Sprague motor, with ref . machine 45. 00 

C. S. pulley and belts 15. 00 

Weighing tanks and platform scales for use with boiler plant 15. 00 

Prony brake for A. & S. engine 5. 00 

Prony brake for Shepherd engine with pulley 10. 00 

Barrel rheostat for use in engine testing 25. 00 

Switchboard and wiring for use with dynamos in engine testing 80. 00 

Steam piping, including safety valve, steam separator, and trap 200. 00 

Triple chain block (Weston) 40. 00 

Parr coal calorimeter 75. 00 

Peabody steam calorimeter 5. 00 

a Loan. 



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Ellison steam calorimeter $20. 00 

Steam pump 35. 00 

Platform scales for use with Prony brakes 4. 00 

Small balances with weights 4. 00 

Oil tank and cans 2. 00 

Belting for engines 45. 00 

Orsat gas analysis apparatus 20. 00 

Anemometer 22. 00 

Crosby steam indicator 75. 00 

Ashcroft gas-engine indicator 85. 00 

Amsler planimeter 27. 00 

3 thermometers 4. 00 

3 spring balances 3. 00 

Speed indicator 1. 00 

Block and falls 6. 00 

Aluminum models of engine cylinders 5. 00 

Rubber and asbestos packing, etc 3. 00 

Iron wire for rheostats .50 

3-inch 30-pound pressure gauge 1. 00 

4^-inch 200-pound pressure gauge 

6-inch 30-pound pressure gauge 1. 00 

Pressure gauge, 5-inch 30-pound gauge 6. 00 

10-inch 200-pound gauge 10. 00 

4 graphite crucibles 

Set products 10. 00 

Laboratory bench 2. 00 

3 laboratory chairs 2. 00 

Water meter 10. 00 

Water-pressure tank (on roof) 10. 00 

Total 6, 290. 00 



MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SHOPS. 

Pay & Egan combination saw table 200. 00 

F. & E. wood planer 350. 00 

Sebastian 9-inch lathe 70. 00 

Barnes metal lathe '. , 50. 00 

Barnes wood lathe 

Old wood lathe 30. 00 

Seneca Falls scroll saw 

Grindstones 5. 00 

Drill press 20. 00 

Countershafts '. ] 

Belting I 130. 00 

Shaftings, pulleys J 

1 refiectoscope 10. 00 

Wood and metal working bench 20. 00 

4 cabinetmaker's vises 8. 00 

14 assorted auger bits (old) 5. 00 

4 large calipers (old) 3. 00 

2 adzes (old) 2. 00 

5 auger handles 

1 axe 1. 50 

Ihoe .60 

3 picks 2. 00 

1 box opener 1. 00 

4 bench brushes .60 

1 trowel .75 

2 drawknives 1. 50 

2 braces 3. 50 

2 rip saws 3. 40 

6 long planes 7. 20 

4 jack planes 4. 00 

5 iron planes 1. 40 

4 crosscut saws 5. 00 

2 old crosscut saws 2. 00 



70 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 hack saw |1. 25 

1 compass saw .60 

2 steel squares 1. 50 

4 3-inch try-squares .80 

1 6-inch try-square - .60 

6 mallets 1. 25 

5 claw hammers 2. 50 

6 scratch gauges 1. 60 

1 oilstone .80 

5 wooden clamps 3. 00 

5 1-inch chisels 2. 50 

4 12-inch chisels 1. 40 

4 J-inch chisels .90 

1 li-inch chisel .60 

1 l^-inch chisel .70 

4 screw-drivers 1. 00 

1 screw-driver, set of 3 blades 1. 00 

1 screw-driver bit .15 

2 gimlet bits .20 

1 belt punch 1. 75 

4 bevels 1. 00 

4 nail sets .40 

3 trestles 3. 00 

3 tool boxes (storage) 7. 00 

4 tool cabinets (student's) 4. 00 

1 instrument closet 1 10. 00 

2 tool racks 3. 00 

1 saw vise • 1. 00 

12 wood-tm-ning tools 2. 50 

1 depth gauge .25 

2 sets Jennings bits 9. 00 

1 set steel figures 1. 25 

1 hack-saw frame .85 

12 hack-saw blades .50 

I file brush .25 

II files 5.00 

1 screw-driver 14 inch 1. 00 

1 carpenter's level 1. 00 

1 pipe stock (2 dies) 7. 00 

4 ball pean hammers 3. 50 

1 pair 6-inch pliers .60 

1 4-foot crowbar 1. 00 

1 5-foot crowbar 1. 25 

2 iron clamps 1. 00 

1 stock and J-inch die 1. 00 

1 plumb bob .20 

1 set small twist drills 3. 00 

1 set (20) twist drills 8. 00 

1 drill chuck 3. 00 

2 Stilson wrenches 2. 00 

3 Goes wrenches 1. 00 

1 gas plier .25 

1 pair pipe tongs .75 

1 pair blacksmith tongs .50 

1 blacksmith forge 20. 00 

1 ball pean hammer .50 

1 large ladle 1. 00 

4 iron vises 20. 00 

6 lathe does 10. 00 

10 mandrels 15. 00 

3 center punches .45 

4 scribers 1. 50 

2 countersinks .40 

1 Armstrong boring tool 3. 00 

1 Armstrong thread-cutting tool 2. 50 

15 metal lathe tools 4. 00 

2 combination squares 3. 00 



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1 steel scale, 10 inches |. 75 

1 adjustable (special) dog 1-00 

1 l-inch die and tap 2. 00 

3 cape chisels 1-25 

7 flat chisels 1. 75 

2 dividers -75 

2 outside calipers 1. 25 

2 inside calipers 1-25 

7 thread-chasing tools 1. 75 

1 micrometer caliper 4. 00 

2 edge pean hammers 1. 00 

1 24-inch pinch bar .75 

1 extension lamp and cord 1. 00 

1 pipe vise 8. 00 

Total 1, 148. 45 

SUMMARY OF INVENTORIES. 

Physics and electricity 4, 509. 50 

Electrical engineering 4, 786. 28 

Civil engineering '. . - - 1, 788. 00 

Mechanical engineering 7, 438. 45 

Total 18, 522. 23 

Note. — ^The value of the equipment in chemistry and geology, used by engineering 
students, is not given in this inventory. 

* Exhibit B. 

division of architecture. 

To the President The George Washington University. 

Sir: In reply to your request of April 29 I have the honor to hand you herewith a 
statement of the facilities for educational work offered by your college of architecture 
under its present equipment, made up under heads given in your appended "Memo- 
randum for statement, " as follows: 

BUILDING AND FACILITIES FOR TEACHING. 

1. House, No. 1532 I street, sole use of five floors and attic on plan of 20 feet by 55 

feet inside; in all, 5,900 square feet. 

Basement: Square feet. 

Front room - 320 

Back room 418 

First floor: 

No. 1. Office and library 371 

No. 2. Lecture room 430 

Second floor: 

No. 3. Drafting room 390 

Ante . Drafting room 203 

No. 4. Drafting room 390 

Third floor: 

No. 5. Lecture room 350 

Lavatory. 

No. 6. Drafting room 340 

Fourth floor: 

No. 7. Free-hand and water-color drawing room 400 

No. 8. Free-hand and water-color drawing room 259 

No. 9. Drafting room 136 

Attic : 

Storerooms 400 

Furnace rooms, corridors, stairs, and closet space 1, 493 

5,900 
Note. — Depth of yard in rear, 32 feet. 



72 



GEORGE WASHINGTON 'UNIVEESITY. 
2. Class rooms. 



Basement. 


Present use. 


Proposed use. 


Capacity. 


Front room 






Students. 
15 


Back room 




Sketch and life class . . . 


20 


First floor: 

No. 2 


Lecture room 


40 


Third floor: 

No.5 


do 




40 


Fourth floor: 

No. 7 


JFree-hand drawing 




22 


\Water color drawing 








16 




/Free-hand drawing 




8 




\Water color drawing 




6 











3. Laboratories. 



Use. 



Square 
feet. 



Equipment. 



Second floor: 

No. 3 

Anteroom 

No. 4 

Third floor, No. 6. . 
Fourth floor: 

No. 7 



Drafting room 

Drafting and lockers. 

Drafting room 

Drafting-room closet. 



No. 8. 
No. 9. 



Free-hand and water-color room. 



....do 

Drafting room. 



390 
203 
390 
340 

400 

259 
136 



It drafting tables. 

3 drafting tables and 40 lockers. 

11 drafting tables. 

10 drafting tables, sink, and 8 lockers. 

Casts, models, easels, chairs, tables 
stools. 
Do. 
5 drafting tables. 



(For equipment, see inventories following.) 

4. Present enrollment and possible accommodation. 





Enrolled 
this year. 


Can ac- 
commo- 
date. 


Laboratories (drafting rooms): 

No. 3 


1 - 

1 50 




No. 4 




No. 6 


180 


No. 9 




Laboratories .'free-hand and water-color): 
No. 7 




No. 8 


210 







Note. — The estimated increase in the working efficiency of present equipment is based upon proposed 
division of enlarged classes into seci ion's. 



SCHEDULE OF EQUIPMENT. 

Basement : 

Back room. — Range, sink, 12 chairs, 6 casts. 
Club room. — Burlap, dado, and cup shelf. 
First floor: 

No. 1 (office and library). — 1 desk; 1 stand; deep drawers; 2 drafting tables; 

1 drafting board and trestles; 1 table; 1 stand of shelves; book shelving; 

4 chairs; 4 stools; 7 large rendered drawings from antique monuments; 1 desk 

drop; 100 slides. (Books listed in librarian's statement). 
No. 2 (lecture room). — 3 tables; 1 lantern and stand; 19 chairs; 1 blackboard, 3 

by 12 feet; photographs, diagrams, books (in weekly loans from Library of 

Congress); 1 plaster Tondo (Michael Angelo). 
Second floor: 

No. 3 (drafting room). — 11 drafting tables; 1 blackboard, 3 feet by 6 feet; 5 stools; 

8 rendered drawings. 
Anteroom. — Stand of 40 lockers; 1 large rendered drawing. 
No. 4 (drafting room). — 11 drafting tables; 3 stools; 1 blackboard, 3 feet by 6 feet; 



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Third floor: 

No. 5 (lecture room). — 1 table; 1 blackboard, 3 feet by 12 feet; 30 chairs; 5 large 

rendered drawings. 
No. 6 (drafting room). — 10 drafting tables; 1 blackboard, 3 feet by 6 feet; 4 stools; 
sink; shelving; 5 rendered drawings; and 1 stand of 8 lockers. 
Fourth floor: 

No. 7 (free-hand and water-color drawing). — 4 small tables; 24 stools; 6 easels; 1 
stand; shelving; and casts as follows: 
Figures — 

1 Venus of Melos |10. 00 

1 Hermes 6. 00 

1 Hermles 6. 00 

1 Germanicus 6. 00 

1 muscles 3. 00 

4 statuettes by Daniel French 20. 00 

1 eagle 5. 00 

Busts — 

1 block bust 3. 00 

1 block bust 2. 00 

1 Roman 4. 00 

1 Caesar 4. 00 

1 Florentine lady 4. 00 

Caps — 

1 Ionic 5.00 

1 Ionic 5.00 

1 Corinth 6. 00 

1 Ionic 5.00 

1 cap (eggs) 4. 00 

5 small caps 5. 00 

Wall pieces: 

1 medallion 5. 00 

1 bracket 4. 00 

1 bracket 2. 00 

1 medallion 1. 00 

1 entablature 5. 00 

1 entablature 1. 50 

1 scroll 2. 50 

1 eggs detail 3. 00 

1 mask 3. 00 

1 mask 1. 50 

1 lion's head 5. 00 

1 buerane 4. 00 

1 arm 1. 00 

1 lion's head : 2. 00 

1 block face 1. 50 

1 part face 1.00 

1 acanthus 2. 00 

3 large rosettes 6. 00 

1 relief, Donatello 4. 00 

1 relief 2. 00 

1 relief 2. 00 

1 relief. 1. 50 

10 small reliefs 10. 00 

1 small relief 2. 00 

1 bracket 1. 50 

10 small school pieces 5. 00 

1 tondo (Michael Angelo) 15.00 

Total estimated value 197. 00 

No. 8 (free-handand water-color drawing). One desk and chair; 2 small tables; 1 
bookshelf; 1 drafting table ; 4 chairs; 2 stools; 3 easels; 1 blackboard (mova- 
ble); 50 volumes loaned from private library. 

No. 9 (drafting room). Three drafting tables; 1 stool. 



74 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Exhibit C. 

college of veterinary medicine. 

Buildings and facilities for instruction. 

College of Veterinary Medicine, Nos. 2113-2115 Fourteenth street NW. Lot, 42 by 
150 feet, contains 3 buildings. 

A. First floor, 42 by 40 feet. Office and waiting room, 15 by 20 feet; pharmacy, 
10 by 15 feet, fully equipped; canine operating room, 10 by 10 feet; lavatory, 5 by 10 
feet; library and reading room, 15 by 30 feet; faculty room, 20 by 20 feet; toilet, 5 by 5 
feet. Second floor and third floor, 4 dormitories of 5 rooms each. 

B. Canine hospital, one story and basement, 12 by 40 feet, (a) Basement Contains 
2 wards of 10 cages each; 1 ward of 2 large retention cages, and a boiler room for entire 
plant, (fe) First floor contains main ward and 6 apartments. Cat ward, with 12 cages. 

p. Veterinary hospital, two stories high. Lot 40 by 60 feet, (a) First floor con- 
tains 10 straight stalls, 1 water stall, 2 box stalls, and a round stall for colic cases; 
ample floor space for examination and minor operating; electric lighting. (6) Second 
floor contains 2 lecture rooms, 20 by 30 feet, which can be used as one or two rooms; 
accommodates 125; number of students enrolled, 54. 

D. Veterinary surgery, an annex to C forming its entrance, 25 by 30 feet. Sky- 
lights and electrically lighted. Fitted with operating table and throwing mattress, 
ropes, hopples, etc. 

Dissecting hall and pharmacy laboratory, No. 2116 Fourteenth street NW. First 
floor 20 by 40, concrete floor, gaslight, 10 dissecting tables, 1 operating table, stock 
grindstone, injection pump, toilet, etc.; accommodates 75 students. Second floor: 
Pharmacy, 20 by 40 feet. Three lines of tables, with equipment for pharmacy work, 
accommodating 75 students at class period; number of students in class, 20. 

Schedule of equipment. 
General equipment: 

Tables |300. 00 

Chairs 50. 00 

Bottles 200. 00 

Scales 100. 00 

Drugs, etc 100. 00 

Stove 15. 00 

Public pharmacy 400. 00 

1, 165. 00 

Dissecting room: = 

10 tables 100. 00 

Operating tables 40. 00 

Grindstone 5. 00 

Injection pump 8. 00 

Knives 5. 00 

Chairs 50. 00 

Stove 20. 00 

228. 00 

Veterinary surgery: = 

Mattress 50. 00 

Popes 50. 00 

Hopples 50. 00 

Slings (2 sets), at |50 each 100. 00 

Operating table 100. 00 

Ambulance horse 350. 00 

Operating set 50. 00 

Dental set 40. 00 

790. 00 
Canine surgerv: :■ ■ ' _ 

Table. . . .' 5. 00 

1 operating case 50. 00 

1 operating case 10. 00 

Sundries 50. 00 

115. 00 



GEORGE AVASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 75 

Resume. 

General equipment |1, 165. 00 

Dissecting room 228. 00 

Veterinary surgery 790. 00 

Canine surgery 115. 00 

2, 298. 00 



Exhibit D. 

The George Washington University, 

Washington, D. C, May 6, 1910. 
Chas. W. Needham, LL. D., 

President, The George Washington University, Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: Agreeably to your request of April 29, 1910, I desire to present a state- 
ment of the condition of the National College of Pharmacy, originally organized under 
the laws of the District of Columbia, November 11, 1872, for the purpose of giving instruc- 
tion in pharmacy, materia medica, chemistry and kindred sciences, and for upholding 
the standard and authority of the United States Pharmacopoeia, and now operating 
under a separate charter, in its financial affairs independent of any other institution 
or school for teaching, not deriving support from other sources than from the fees from 
tuition and from the annual dues paid by its members, and which National College 
of Pharmacy by affiliation in February, 1906, became a member of the educational 
system of the George Washington University by reincorporation under the act of 
Congress of March 3, 1905, providing for the organization of colleges and is designated 
in its relation to the George Washington University as National College of Pharmacy. 
By virtue of this affiliation the resources of the university are increased only by the 
receipt of |10 for diploma fee for each graduate. 

The statement that is herewith presented is a true exhibit of all resources and 
facilities for education possessed by National College of Pharmacy with the number 
of students in attendance at this date, as shown by the roll books. 
Yours, very respectfully, 

H. E. Kalusowski, Dean. 

One building situated at 808 I street NW., three stories in height, with basement. 

One lecture room, first floor, 61 by 27 feet, with tables and chairs to accommodate 
66 students. 

One reception room 9 by 10 feet. 

One office room 9 by 10 feet. 

One room for microscopes and accessories 9 by 10 feet. 

One pharmaceutical laboratory, second floor, 34 by 27 feet. Total accommoda- 
tions 84 students, accommodating at one time 45. Desk space for each 2 feet 10 
inches by 1 foot 10 inches. Gas burners for each desk. Five sinks with 10 water taps. 
One large fume closet 6 by 3 feet. 

One stock room 12 by 12 feet. 

One stock room 9 by 6 feet. 

One library room 22 by 10 feet. 

One room for chemical, pharmaceutical, and botanical specimens 17 by 10 feet. 

Microscopic laboratory (the lecture room), 61 by 27 feet, accommodates at one time 
32 students; supplied with 16 adjustable pendant electric lights. 

One chemical laboratory 60 by 27 feet, containing 197 running feet of working desk 
space comprising 55 single desks 3 feet 7 inches by 1 foot 6 inches. Each desk sup- 
plied with gas and bunsen burners. A total of 143 locked drawers containing appa- 
ratus for students' use and 80 closets similarly supplied. (Drawers 18 inches square, 
closets 26 inches by 19 inches by 18 inches.) Six fume closets 4 feet by 1 foot 6 inches 
for reactions evolving noxious fumes, space below same provided with 11 drawers con- 
taining apparatus and closet 2 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 6 inches by — feet for storage 
of mineral acids. One apparatus closet 9 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 6 inches by 1 foot 8 
inches. One drying table 2 feet by 4 feet, two working tables 2 feet by 4 feet. Twelve 
water taps. Three hundred and ninety feet of narrow shelving above desks contain- 
ing about 1,650 bottles, 1, 2, 4, and 8 ounce, containing chemicals, reagents, test solu- 
tions, etc. 

One instructor's chemical laboratory and stock room 10 feet by 22 feet. Desk space 
10 feet by 18 inches, space below divided into lockers and drawers. One working 



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table 5 feet 9 inches by 2 feet, containing drawer filled with labels for reagents. One 
apparatus closet 9 feet by 4 feet by 1 foot. Twenty feet of narrow shelving containing 
70 bottles of chemicals, reagents, etc., and 114 feet of 12 inch wide shelving containing 
650 bottles, cans, jars, etc., of C. P. chemicals, technical chemicals, reagents in bulk, 
test solutions, test papers, etc. One sink with two. water taps. 
One janitor's room 17 by 10 feet. 

Inventory of machinery and equipment of chemical laboratory, instructor'' s chemical 
laboratory, and stock room third floor. 

650 bottles, jars, cans, etc., containing C. P. chemicals, technical chemicals, 

reagents in bulk, test solutions, etc |200. 00 

25 7-pound bottles mineral acids 43. 75 

1,720 small bottles (1, 2, 4, and 8 ounce bottles) of chemicals, reagents, test 

solutions, etc 239. 50 

191 beakers, at 18 cents 34. 38 

153 crucibles, at 18 cents 27. 54 

117 evaporating dishes, at 20 cents 23. 40 

135 packages filter paper, at 10 cents 13. 50 

101 flasks, at 10 cents 10. 10 

47 graduates, at 45 cents 21. 15 

51 mortars and pestles, at 50 cents 25. 50 

5 notebooks, at 5 cents .25 

^113 pliers, at 25 cents 28. 25 

141 dozen test tubes, at 30 cents 42. 30 

100 dozen test stands, at 55 cents 55. 00 

30 pounds glass tubing and rod 15. 00 

100 watch glasses, at 3 cents 3. 00 

200 wire triangles, at 5 cents 10. 00 

/leO ignition tubes, at 8 cents 12. 80 

55 adapters, at 5 cents 2. 75 

50 tubulated retorts, at 30 cents 15. 00 

50 glass cylinders, at 25 cents 12. 50 

200 wire gauze, at 10 cents 20. 00 

139 funnels, at 10 cents 13. 90 

57 wash bottles, at 35 cents 19. 95 

58 carbon dioxide tubes, at 2 cents 1. 16 

50 platinum wires, at 10 cents 5. 00 

34 blue glass 1. 70 

61 burettes, at $2 , 122. 00 

56 burette holders, at 50 cents 28. 00 

40 burette tips, at 5 cents 2. 00 

52 pipettes, at 65 cents 33. 80 

32 100-cubic centimeter graduates, at 65 cents 20. 80 

30 500-cubic centimeter flasks, at 35 cents 10. 50 

43 100-cubic centimeter stoppered flasks, at 35 cents 15. 05 

28 200-cubic centimeter Florence flasks, at 16 cents 4. 48 

52 250-cubic centimeter Florence flasks, at 20 cents 10. 40 

12 tubulated test tubes .72 

500 corks. No. 5 .95 

1 lot rubber stoppers 5. 00 

~=.-l mercury bath .80 

36 iron ignition spoons, at 15 cents 5. 40 

36 Hessian crucibles, at 5 cents 1. 80 

"=^50 blowpipes, at 15 cents 7. 50 

6 urea determination outfits, at 30 cents 1. 80 

45 china plates, at 10 cents 4. 50 

1 Kipps apparatus 4. 50 

1 4-tube bunsen burner 1. 75 

2 copper retorts, at $1.80 3. 60 

1 Fletcher blast lamp 10. 00 

3 gas stoves, at |1 3. 00 

2 5-inch steel spatulas, at 35 cents .70 

3 2-inch steel spatulas, at 25 cents .75 

12 3-inch steel sp'atulas, nickeled, at 50 cents 6. 00 

2 dozen thistle tubes, at $1.20 2. 40 

7 mortars and pestles, at 65 cents 4. 55 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 77 

2 dozen test-tube holders, at $1.80 $3. 60 

48 s. m. bottles, at 11 cents 5. 28 

50 2-ounce glass-stopper bottles, at 9§ cents 4. 75 

100 4-ounce glass-stopper bottles, at 11 cents 11. 00 

144 4-ounce bottles, at 4 cents 5.76 

^'35 grams platinum foil, at $1.02 35. 70 

-^25 grams silver foil 1. 20 

2 precipitating cylinders, at $1.50 3. 00 

1 pair Becker long-arm balances and weights 125. 00 

1 pair prescription scales 20. 00 

8 pairs Troemner scales 60. 00 

1 pair 2-kilo scales and weights 16. 00 

1 distilled-water condenser, etc 25. 00 

100 Bunsen burners, at 35 cents 35. 00 

80 retort stands, at 45 cents 36. 00 

120 feet rubber tubing 7. 00 

3 3-liter beakers 3. 00 

1 2-liter beaker .80 

2 large glass funnels .70 

7 1-liter beakers, at 40 cents 2. 80 

-'2 large iron mortars and pestles, at $2.70 5. 40 

1 2-liter stoppered flask 2. 40 

5 1-liter stoppered flask, at $1.60 8. 00 

3 J-liter stoppered flasks, at $1.20 3. 60 

1 i-liter stoppered flask ^ 1. 00 

1 200-cubic-centimeter stoppered flask .90 

1 50-cubic-centimeter stoppered flask .60 

1 separatory funnel 2. 00 

3 iron tripods, at 40 cents 1. 20 

1 1-liter graduate 3. 00 

1 J-liter graduate 2. 00 

2 wooden funnel stands, at 65 cents 1. 30 

' 1 Fletcher gas furnace for crucibles 20. 00 

Desks, tables, hoods, shelving, etc. (chemical laboratory) 600. 00 

Labels for reagent bottles, etc 30. 00 

6 4-cluster Welsbach lights 60. 00 

Total for chemical laboratory 2, 353. 12 

Apparatus in use in the pharmaceutical laboratory. 

36 weighing bottles 7. 20 

40 porcelain crucibles 10. 00 

45 wire triangles 4. 50 

75 burettes, 50 cubic-centimeter graduates in 1610s 52. 50 

180 burette clamps 45. 00 

275 beakers, 120 cubic centimeters 14. 11 

5 gross test tubes, 5 and 6 inches 15. 00 

75 glass evaporating dishes, 2-ounce 9. 00 

80 porcelain evaporating dishes, 4-ounce 8. 00 

60 porcelain evaporating dishes, 16-ounce 13. 50 

-30 assay flasks, 16-ounce 3. 00 

61 glass-stoppered Erlenmeyer flasks, 120 cubic centimeters 8. 75 

20 mortars and pestles. No . 2 wedgwood 12. 00 

86 mortars and pestles. No. 1 wedgwood , 51. 60 

2 mortars and pestles. No. 4 wedgwood 2. 00 

1 mortar and pestle. No. 10 wedgwood 3. 75 

85 steel spatulas, 7-inch 42. 25 

105 steel spatulas, 4-inch 30. 15 

14 hard -rubber spatulas, 7-inch 11. 20 

45 packs filter paper, 3-inch 6. 70 

25 packs filter paper, 5-inch 6. 00 

40 packs filter paper, 7^-inch 13. 00 

15 pounds solid glass rod, cut to length and uncut 4. 50 

30 pounds glass tubing, J inch to J inch diameter 9. 00 

5 pounds glass tubing, | inch, cut to 14-inch lengths 1. 50 

66 funnels, glass, pints 19. 80 



78 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

45 funnels, glass, ^-pint .• $9. 90 

90 funnels, glass, i-pint 9. 00 

48 funnels, glass, 2-ounce 3. 88 

75 funnels, glass, 1-ounce 5. 25 

60 cylindrical graduates, 100 cubic centimeters , 36. 00 

30 cylindrical graduates, 25 cubic centimeters 9. 00 

54 duplex cylindrical graduates, 4 fluid ounces, 120 cubic centimeters. 35. 10 

61 volumetric glass measuring flasks, 250 cubic centimeters 18. 75 

28 volumetric glass measuring flasks, 100 cubic centimeters 14. 00 

4 volumetric glass measuring flasks, 1,000 cubic centimeters 4. 00 

91 glass flasks, 500 cubic centimeters 12. 80 

58 glass flasks, 250 cubic centimeters 6. 25 

267 glass flasks, 120 cubic centimeters 22. 00 

65 test-tube racks 39. 00 

15 Liebig condensers with rubber tubing (120 feet) 7. 50 

14 brass sieves, No. 100 to No. 12. 8. 50 

48 test-tube clamps, brass 7. 20 

50 separatory funnels, 120 cubic centimeters, glass-stoppered 25. 00 

25 pipettes, 10 cubic centimeters 2. 50 

30 pipettes, 5 cubic centimeters 2. 00 

32 bottles blue litmus strips (100) 3. 20 

36 bottles red litmus strips (100) 3. 60 

16 pounds rubber stoppers, 1 and 2 perforations 30. 00 

60 graduated receiving jars, 32-ounce 35. 00 

24 beakers, 240 cubic centimeters 1. 44 

80 water baths and covers, enamel ware 8. 00 

10 thistle tubes, 12-inch stem 1. 00 

122 percolators, 1 pint capacity 24. 00 

75 sand baths, tin 3. 75 

■ 100 percolator packers, wood 1. 00 

-250 rubber covers for percolators 3. 50 

58 retort stands, iron 60. 00 

36 porcelain pill tiles 39. 00 

,12 pill-making machines 30. 00 

10 tablet triturate molds 17. 50 

50 suppository boards, hard oak 25. 00 

40 pill finishers, boxwood 8. 77 

6 dozen amber glass jars, with nickel tops, 4-ounce 2. 40 

24 dozen amber glass jars, with nickel tops, 1-ounce 6. 00 

36 dozen powder boxes 4. 50 

36 dozen suppository boxes 6. 00 

48 dozen pill boxes 3. 00 

2 gross 2-ounce vials 5. 00 

1 gross 4-ounce vials 3. 00 

1 gross 8-ounce vials 4. 00 

1 gross 8-ounce vials, glass-stoppered 8. 00 

2 gross 4-ounce vials, glass-stoppered 12. 00 

1 gross 3-ounce vials 2. 75 

1 gross 1-ounce vials 2. 50 

1 gross 16-ounce vials 7. 50 

1^ gross 1-ounce vials, glass-stoppered 7. 50 

6,000 empty capsules 3. 60 

4,000 powder papers 2. 40 

1 Enterprise drug mill 7. 00 

1 Enterpise drug mill 3. 50 

1 Enterprise drug cutter 2. 50 

- 65 pounds assorted ground drugs, for use in laboratory work 14. 00 

1 copper still, 5-galion 12. 00 

1 copper still, 2-gallon 5. 00 

2 copper stills, 1-gallon 14. 00 

IJ gross rulers, inches and metric system 6. 48 

12 precipitating jars, J gallon 6. 00 

1,018 bottles containing chemicals, chemical reagents, and drugs for use 

in laboratory work 65. 00 

2 250-cubic centimeter flasks graduated in 1/10, for oil determinations 1. 50 

4 suppository machines 12. 00 

1 Gooch crucible porcelain 1. 25 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 79 

^ 5 hot-water funnels 15. 00 

1 florentine receiver, 1 pint .50 

^ 1 infusion mug, china .90 

,^-1 hot-water oven, 6 by 6 by 8 2. 00 

1 dess(f>cator 9. 00 

, - 1 troche-making machine 4. 00 

3 reflex condensers 3. 75 

8 glass retorts 2. 00 

,, 1 porcelain retort 2. 50 

,1 refractometer for testing oils 60. 00 

1 Westpjahl balance ". 9. 00 

30 Bunseh burners 10. 50 

30 chemical thermometers 39. 00 

2 balances for coarse weighings and weights 12. 00 

60 empty reagents bottles, 4 ounce and 8 ounce, labeled by etching 9. 00 

15 balances for fine weighings 150. 00 

1 analytical balance 60. 00 

10 sets apothecaries' weights 3. 00 

16 sets metric weights, 1 milligram to 100 grams 32. 00 

-^2 sets glass weighing pans 1. 50 

11 hand balances, brass 11. 00 

36 gas stoves 18. 00 

2 hot-water copper ovens, 10 by 10 by 8 18. 00 

4 4-cluster Welsbach lights 40. 00 

1 gelatine pill-coating machine 10. 00 

^1 tincture press, 1 quart, iron 2. 25 

/"I Kellog gasoline burner 3. 50 

I tablet compressing machine 75. 00 

-2 glass alcohol burners .70 

5 gross cork stoppers, assorted .85 

479 mineral specimens, labeled and in separate containers 60. 00 

287 bottles containing rare chemicals, metals 30. 00 

-- 2 apparatus for electrolysis of water 13. 50 

-' 1 barometer, mercurial 3. 00 

-- 2 nitrometers and stand 11. 00 

-' 1 endiometer. .' 9. 00 

259 bottles containing alkaloids, synthetic compounds, organic compounds . 20. 00 

— 208 botanical specimens, labeled and in wood containers 12. 00 

" 12 urinometers, cases, and jars 10. 00 

• 2 ureameters 2. 00 

II hydrometers, for heavy and light liquids 7. 00 

4 alcoholometers 3. 00 

5 steel crucible tongs 1. 00 

12 specific gravity flasks, 50 grams 18. 00 

3 dozen watch glasses .75 

12 18-inch hydrometer jars 6-00 

296 botanical specimens in glass containers 50. 00 

Cabinets for use in general chemistry contain: 

12 iron stands, burette and retort 18. 00 

6 burette clamps 2. 40 

5 gross test tubes, assorted, Bohemian 15. 00 

6 iron tripods 1. 50 

4 Bunsen burners 3. 75 

20 beakers, 240 cubic centimeters 3. 40 

1 pneumatic trough 2. 20 

1 mercury trough 1. 00 

15 porcelain evaporating dishes, 4-ounce 3. 75 

8 crucibles, porcelain, No. 1 2. 00 

3 mortars and pestles. No. 1 .60 

5 funnels, 4-ounce .70 

6 round Hessian crucibles, 8-ounce 1. 60 

28 flasks, glass, assorted (i-pint, $1.60; ^-pint, $1.04, and quart, $1.20). . . 3. 84 

4 dozen perforated rubber stoppers 6. 00 

4 dozen cork stoppers .20 

2 dozen watch glasses .50 

14 files 1. 00 

1 pair shears 1. 25 



80 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

25 pounds glass tubing, j to 1 inch diameter $12. 50 

2 burettes, 50 cubic centimeters in tenths 1. 40 

4 pipettes, 1.50 cubic centimeters, 1.25 cubic centimeters, 2.10 cubic centi- 
meters .85 

2 chemical thermometers, 200 centimeters 2. 60 

2 test tube racks 1. 20 

4 funnels, 2-ounce glass .40 

1 dialyzing apparatus 1. 50 

9 glass cylinders on foot 12 by 4 11. 25 

1 glass spiral condenser and iron stand 1. 25 

1 air pump, 4-bell jars .' 40. 00 

3 spectroscopic charts 3. 00 

1 spectroscope 35. 00 

1 aspii-ator 1. 25 

1 oxyhvdrogen blowpipe 5. 00 

6 U tubes .96 

1 pyrometer 2. 50 

6 dozen 8-inch test tubes, side neck 10. 40 

1 Crooke's radiometer 2. 50 

6 ii'on tripods 1. 50 

4 iron triangles 2. 40 

-1 set capillary tubes .60 

1 set collision balls 3. 00 

3 charts (elements arranged in periodic system, Mendelejeff) 3. 75 

1 apparatus for decomposing NHg and HCj 4. 00 

1 apparatus for demonstrating union of O and H 10. 00 

1 set equilibrium tubes 2. 00 

2 Leyden jars 3. 00 

1 galvanometer 3. 25 

2 electro-magnets 5. 25 

1 gold-leaf letrometer. . .! 1-25 

2 concave mirrors 6. 00 

1 organ pipe and sounder 3. 75 

1 Ruhmkorf coil 5. 00 

2 horseshoe magnets 1-00 

1 bar magnet -35 

1 hydrostatic balance 12. 00 

1 prescription balance 16. 00 

2 sets metric weights (1 milligram to 100 grams) 9. 00 

1 sounding fork -50 

1 whirling table 4. 75 

1 whirling ring 1-35 

1 gyroscope 2. 25 

5 Giesler tubes : 3. 00 

1 Nicholson hydrometer 3. 75 

3 atom models (Eilcarta) 17. 00 

1 10-gallon oxygen tank 10. 00 

2 pulse glasses .40 

1 water hammer 1. 00 

1 Ritchie gravity block -50 

1 vacuum tube (3 feet) - 1-50 

3 vacuum cups - 7. 50 

1 apparatus for showing equilibrium of liquids 3. 00 

1 Cartesian diver and apparatus -25 

2 pneumatic syringes 1-75 

1 electric bomb -50 

1 sonometer 5. 00 

1 apparatus to show pressure and percussion 1. 50 

12 nessler tubes quick 6. 00 

6 chlor. cal. tubes -96 

5 pounds barometer tubes 3. 00 

12 thistle tubes, 12-inch 1. 20 

1 separator, 120 cubic centimeters -50 

1 projecting lantern, oxyhydrogen 50. 00 

1 electric apparatus, frictional Toepler-Holtz 20. 00 

2 dry-cell batteries 1-40 

1 dipping battery 16. 00 



GEORGE WASHINGTON" UNIVERSITY. 81 

3 blowpipes |0. 60 

90 bottles chemical reagent 13. 70 

Pharmaceutical laboratory contains, ready for use: 

246 bottles, 5 pints to ^ pint volumetric solution and reagents 40. 00 

Microscopic cabinet contains, ready for use: 

27 microscopes 766. 00 

'60 containers with drugs and foodstuffs for examination microscopically. . . 10. 00 

1 ream drawing paper. 1. 25 

60 dissecting needles 1. 50 

3 dozen forceps, steel 5. 40 

80 packages (100 each) white filters 19. 20 

1 ream Japanese tissue (lens) paper 1. 50 

1,000 slides 6. 00 

16-ounce glass covers 11. 00 

1 analyzer 9. 90 

1 polarizer 8. 10 

10 Abbe condensers with Iris diaphragm 68. 85 

7 extra double nose pieces 26. 14 

3 micrometer disks 3. 38 

Library contains 2,500 bound volumes, worth about, if sold at forced sale. . 500. 00 

Desks and shelving for work in pharmaceutical laboratory 400. 00 

1 set plain botanical charts 15. 00 

1 set botanical charts, hand painted 90. 00 

1 set lithographed botanical plates in colors 39. 00 

1 set charts wth chemical symbols and chemical reactions 75. 00 

4, 628. 41 



Students' session, 1909-10: 

Chemical laboratory 82 

Pharmaceutical laboratory 80 

Microscopic laboratory 8 

RECAPITULATION . 

Total for chemical laboratory $2, 353. 12 

Total for other items 4, 628. 41 

Value of real estate and buildings (on which a trust of |1,000 is still due) . . 20, 000. 00 

26, 981. 53 
Exhibit E. 

college of arts and sciences. 

May 6, 1910. 

My Dear President Needham: In answer to your request of the 29th instant, I 
would furnish the following report concerning the rooms and accommodations assigned 
to students of the college of arts and sciences in the main building, corner Fifteenth and 
H streets. 

The main building consists of a basement and three stories and a tower containing 
two rooms. The basement is occupied by the business offices, by laboratories of the 
college of engineering, including also the physical laboratory, which will be reported 
elsewhere. In addition, there are in the basement laboratories of the department of 
chemistry, a janitor's room, a lavatory, and a considerable space occupied by the heat- 
ing plant. Nothing in the basement comes properly within the assignment or use of 
the college of arts and sciences, except the chemical laboratories, which, as they are 
used jointly by different departments of the university, will be elsewhere reported. 

The first story of the main building is occupied by the president's office and by the 
library of arts and sciences. These do not come within the scope of this report. In 
addition, in the first story also, are two halls, of size and capacity as follows: 



Name. 


Designation. 


Size. Capacity. 




Assembly hall 

Lecture hall 


60 feet by 45 feet 6 inches 


450 


West hall . 


45 feet 6 inches by 22 feet 


80 









45824—10- 



82 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

The second story has class rooms and offices as follows: 



Room 
No. 


Designation. 


Size. 


Capacity. 


14 




25 feet bv 24 feet 


40 


15 


do 


2(3 feet by 21 feet 2 inches 


40 


16 


do 


20 feet 3 inches by 17 feet 9 inches . . 
25 feet 10 inches by 20 feet 8 inches. 
25 feet 2 inches by 23 feet 11 inches. 
25 feet 2 inches by 12 feet 8 inches. . 


35 


17 


do 


35 


18 


do 


50 


19 






20 








21 


OflBce of Professor Carroll .... 


12 feet by 18 feet 6 inches 




22 23 


Office of dean of college of arts and sciences 

Office of dean of women of college of arts and 
sciences. 


11 feet by IS feet 6 inches 




24 


10 feet 3 inches by 18 feet inches. . 











The third story has class rooms and laboratories as follows: 



Room 
No. 


Designation. 


Size. 


Capacity. 


25 




25 feet by 24 feet 

30 feet 10 inches by 26 feet 3 inches. 

31 feet 6 inches by 26 feet 3 inches. 
25 feet 2 inches by 23 feet 11 inches. 
25 feet 2 inches bv 12 feet 8 inches. 


50 


26 


Class room . 


70 


27 




(a) 


28 




50 


29 






31 




35 by 46 feet 


C) 


32 


Office of Doctor Harlan . 




33 




46 feet 9 inches hy 24 feet 


(a) 











« Special report attached. 



<) Reported elsewhere. 



The wing of the university building running back in the rear of the law building 
is occupied by the department of chemistry, reports of which are elsewhere given. 

In the tower of the building there is a room the full size of the tower, assigned for 
the use of the Young Men's Christian Association of the university. Above this 
room in the top of the tower is another smaller room assigned for the use of the student 
publications as editorialjoffices. 

I forward as a part of this report the report of Professor Merrill for the geological 
laboratory, and the report of Professor Bartsch for the zoological, botanical, and 
biological laboratory. The facilities in chemistry and physics, utilized largely by 
the college of arts and sciences, are separately reported elsewhere. 
Very respectfully, 

Wm. a. Wilbur, Dean. 

Schedule of equipment. 

Zoological, botanical, and biological laboratory. 

7 microscopes, which have a value of about $40 each $280 

1 microtome, valued at $30 30 

1 paraffin bath, $20 20 

1 Arnold steam sterilizer, about $25 25 

1 paraffin oven, $20 20 

Glassware, about $70 70 

Reagents, about $30 30 

Insect case and insects, about $150 150 



625 

In addition to the above we have my personal collection (Professor Bartsch) of 
birds, about 1,000, and Mr. Palmer's collection of birds, about 2,500, which have 
been used for our class work in ornithology. These, however, are private collec- 
tions and have simply been loaned for use. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 83 

The number of students enrolled this year in zoology are: 12 in "zoology 1," 8 in 
ornithology, and 3 doing post-graduate work. The number which can be accom- 
modated in the room for recitation is about 30; for laboratory work, about 16. 

Geology. 

About one-half of room 33 is used for laboratorj^ purposes, say a space 25 by 50 feet, 
or an equivalent of 1,250 square feet. The equipment for the room consists of the 
following : 

1 lantern |125 

1 wall case with 3 maps 20 

650 lantern slides, at 40 cents 260 

1 roller map case of the United States 12 

23 sets of blowpipe apparatus, at |5 115 

Collections of rocks and minerals 250 

Collections of fossils 150 

Chemicals on hand 25 

5 cases for books and specimens, at |20 100 

2 benches with gas connections, at $25 50 

1,107 

The number of students enrolled for the work in the laboratory this year was 23, 
although there is really room for but 20. 

Chemistry. 

May 6, 1910. 
Mr. Charles W. Nebdham, 

President George Washington University. 
Dear Sir: In obedience to your instructions, I have the honor to submit herewith 
a "Report on conditions and resources in chemistry at George Washington University, 
May, 1910." As there are about 10,000 different items, it was of course, a physical 
impossibility to inventory all of them separately in the time at command. I have, 
therefore, divided them into 406 different classes, and taken for their values, where 
possible, an average value from the recent trade catalogues, allowing also for depre- 
ciation, and I believe that the estimate which I give is a conservative one. 
Yours, very truly, 

Charles E. Munroe. 

Report on conditions and resources in chemistry at George Washington University, 

May, 1910. 

Rooms used in teaching: 

Main building, upper floor: Lecture room, 46 feet by 35 feet; preparation room, 
30 feet by 14 feet; research laboratory, 33 feet by 15 feet 4 inches. 

Main building, second floor: Organic laboratory, 40 feet by 30 feet 10 inches; electro- 
chemical laboratory, 35 feet 3 inches by 12 feet 4 inches; balance room, 11 feet 9 
inches by 9 feet; research laboratory, 17 feet 7 inches by 14 feet 5 inches; stock room, 
13 feet by 9 feet 4 inches. 

Main building, first floor: General laboratory, 47 feet by 33 feet (with stock room); 
preparation room, 17 feet 5 inches by 14 feet 5 inches; balance room, 13 feet by 9 feet 
4 inches. 

Main building, basement: Assay laboratory (with balance room), 59 feet 10 inches 
by 11 feet; preparation room, 17 feet by 15 feet 4 inches; store room, 35 feet 10 inches 
by 15 feet 4 inches. 

Medical building: Lecture room, 42 feet 3 inches by 52 feet; laboratory, 51 feet by 
48 feet 4 inches; balance room, 21 feet 9 inches by 15 feet 5 inches; stock room, 21 
feet 9 inches by 15 feet 5 inches. 
Capacities: Persons, 

Lecture room, main building 150 

Lecture room, medical building 300 

Laboratories, main building 122 

Laboratories, medical building 368 



84 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Number of students enrolled for chemistry in the various courses for 1909-10. 

Students in chemical lectures and recitations: Students. 

Course 1 105 

Course 6 41 

Course 23 25 

Course 24 11 

Course 28 33 

Course 29 22 

Course 30 22 

Total 259 

Students in chemical laboratories : 

Course 2 27 

Course 3 16 

Course 4 1 

Course 7 32 

Course 20 24 

Course 21 10 

Course 25 4 

Course 28 33 

Course 29 22 

Course 30 22 

Course 31 16 

Medical, first year ' 9 

Dental, first year 9 

Veterinary, first year 16 

Graduate courses 9 

Total 250 

Grand total 509 

Apparatus, supplies, and equipment for chemistry in department of arts and sciences. 

Inorganic and organic chemistry: 
Chemicals — 

100 pounds acids, organic, at $1 |100. 00 

100 pounds acids, hydrochloric CP, at 15 cents 15. 00 

75 pounds acids, hydrochloric Com., at 8 cents per carboy 7. 29 

96 pounds acids, nitric, C. P., at 20 cents 19. 20 

600 pounds acids, nitric, Com., at 10 cents per carboy 67. 50 

150 pounds acids, sulphuric, C. P., at 10 cents per carboy 16. 25 

200 pounds acids, sulphuric. Com., at 1 cent per carboy 4. 50 

10 pounds acids, morganic, at 30 cents 3. 00 

10 gallons alcohols, ectyl., at 20 cents 2. 00 

50 pounds alcohols, other, at 50 cents 25. 00 

200 pounds aluminum and aluminum compounds, at 10 cents .... 20. 00 

90 pounds ammonia water, C. P., at 15 cents per carboy 14. 75 

90 pounds ammonia water. Com., at 10 cents per carboy 10. 25 

50 pounds ammonium compounds, at 20 cents 10. 00 

5 pounds antimony and antimony compounds, at 50 cents 2. 50 

5 pounds arsenic and arsenic compounds, at 25 cents 1. 25 

30 pounds barium and barium compounds, at $1 30. 00 

10 pounds bismuth and bismuth compounds, at |2 20. 00 

5 pounds boron and its compounds, at 60 cents 3. 00 

5 pounds bromine, at 50 cents 2. 50 

5 pounds cadmium, its alloys and compounds, at $1 5. 00 

1 ounce carsuim compounds, at $2 2. 00 

20 pounds calcium compounds, at 25 cents 5. 00 

10 pounds carbon, at 10 cents 1. 00 

2 ounces cerium compounds, at $1 2. 00 

5 pounds chronium compounds, at |1 5. 00 

10 pounds cobalt and its compounds, at |2 10. 00 

25 pounds copper and its compounds, at 75 cents 8. 34 

J ounce gold compounds, at $16 8. 00 



GEORGE WASHINGTO]Sr UNIVEESITY. 



85 



Inorganic and organic chemistry — Continued. 
Chemicals — Continued . 

2 pounds iodine, at $3 $6. 00 

25 pounds iron and its compounds, at 50 cents 12. 50 

25 pounds lead and its compounds, at 50 cents 12. 50 

4 ounces lithium compounds, at |1.50 6. 00 

20 pounds magnesium and its compounds, at 60 cents 12. 00 

30 pounds manganese and its compounds, at 50 cents 15. 00 

100 pounds mercury, at |1.20 120. 00 

5 pounds molybdenum compounds, at $2 10. 00 

10 pounds nickel and its compounds, at 75 cents 7. 50 

1 ounce palladium compounds, at |5 5. 00 

35 ounces phosphorus and its compounds, at $1.50 52. 50 

500 grains platinum and its compounds, at $1 500. 00 

100 pounds potassium and its compounds, at |1 100. 00 

^ ounce rubidium compounds, at |6 .75 

1 ounce selenium, at $5 .62 

2 pounds silicon and its compounds, at |2 4. 00 

1-j pounds silver and its compounds, at 80 cents 1. 20 

150 pounds sodium and its compounds, at 20 cents 30. 00 

8 pounds strontium compounds, at 50 cents 4. 00 

10 pounds sulphur, at 10 cents 1. 00 

2 pounds tellurium and its compounds, at |2 4. 00 

J ounce thorium compounds, at $1 .50 

10 pounds tin and its compounds, at 40 cents • 4. 00 

1 ounce titanium compounds, at |2 2. 00 

2 pounds tungsten compounds, at $1 2. 00 

5 pounds uranium compounds, at $3 15. 00 

1 pound vanadium compounds, at $3 3. 00 

25 pounds zinc and its compounds, at 30 cents 7. 50 

1 ounce zirconium compounds, at $2 2. 00 

Chemical exhibits and cases 600. 00 

Collection of dyestuffs and coloring matters 500. 00 

Organic chemicals 250. 00 

Apparatus — 

5 acid dishes, at $1 5. 00 

10 crocks and pots, at 20 cents 2. 00 

12 adapters, at 30 cents .\ - - 3. 60 

Anvils, vises, hammers, and tools 15. 00 

Asbestos board and neats 4. 00 

8 balances, analytical, at $60 480. 00 

12 balances, common, at $8 96. 00 

30 balances, horn and brass, at $1.75 52. 50 

1 balance, Westphal's 15. 00 

1 barometer 14. 00 

1 barometer, aneroid 7. 50 

10 batteries, at 25 cents 2. 50 

900 beakers, at 20 cents 180. 00 

6 bell glasses, at$l 6. 00 

6 bellows, at $6 36. 00 

6 binding posts, at 10 cents. -60 

Blast apparatus 250. 00 

12 blast lamps, at $3 _. 36. 00 

12 blast lamps for glass working 10. 00 

50 blowpipes, at 15 cents 7. 50 

144 dozen bottles, at $1.44 207. 36 

6 bottles, specific gravity, at $1 6. 00 

36 bottles, weighing, at 40 cents 14. 40 

50 brushes, test tubes, etc., at 5 cents 2. 50 

12 bulbs, rubber, at 10 cents 1-20 

50 bulb tubes, at 20 cents 10. 00 

36 burettes, at |1.50 54. 00 

150 burners, Bunsen, at 25 cents 37. 50 

6 burners, spinal forcas, at $2 12. 00 

12 calorimeters, at $1.50 18. 00 

1 calorimeter, Bunsen 1-25 

2 alkalimeters, at $1.70 3. 40 



86 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Inorganic and organic chemistry — Continued. 
Apparatus — Continued . 

1 alkalimeter, Scheibler's $30. 00 

1 carboy inclinator 5. 00 

51 casseroles, porcelain, at 90 cents 45. 90 

40 casseroles, agate ware, at 25 cents 10. 00 

1 centrifuge 35. 00 

48 clamps, at 60 cents 28. 80 

216 clamps, pinchcocks, at 20 cents 43. 40 

105 cobalt glass, at 6 cents 6. 30 

1 color comparator 15. 00 

1 colormeter 80. 00 

3 combustion furnaces, at $25 75. 00 

48 condensers, at $1 48. 00 

2 condensers for SO2, at $2 4. 00 

65 gr. corks, long, at 50 cents 32. 50 

9.5 gr. corks, flat, at $2 19.00 

4 cork borers, at $1.50 6. 00 

4 cork presses, at 65 cents 2. 60 

72 crucibles, porcelain, at 25 cents 18. 00 

36 crucibles, gooches, at 60 cents 21. 60 

120 crucible tongs, at 30 cents 36. 00 

2 crushers, at $25 50. 00 

6 cylinders, open and closed, at 25 cents 1. 50 

100 cylinders, open grad., at $1 100. 00 

36 desiccators, at $1.60 57. 60 

250 dishes, evaporating, at 45 cents 112. 50 

1 distilling apparatus 25. 00 

1 drying apparatus 12. 00 

5 drying ovens, at $6.50 32. 50 

3 drying ovens, double walled, at $12 36. 00 

1 drying oven, V. Meyer's 12. 00 

48 drying tubes, at 30 cents 14. 40 

2 extraction apparatus, at $1 2. 00 

3 extraction apparatus, Wiley's, at $5 15. 00 

1 extraction apparatus, cartridges 2. 00 

36 files, at 10 cents 3. 60 

1 filter case 4. 00 

1 ream filter paper, uncut qual., at $4.80 4. 80 

353 pk. filter paper, cut qual., at 10 cents 35. 30 

30 pk. filter paper, cut quan., at $1 30. 00 

18 filter pumps, at $1.75 30. 50 

24 filter tubes, at 25 cents ■ 6. 00 

90 filter stands, at 60 cents 54. 00 

Filtering apparatus 4. 00 

76 flasks, assay, at 20 cents 15. 20 

67 flasks, balloon, at 60 cents 40.20 

806 flasks, Erlenmeyer, at 20 cents 161. 20 

60 flat-bottom flasks, at 12 cents 7. 20 

79 flasks, distillery, at 30 cents 23. 70 

66 flasks, graduated, at 60 cents 39. 60 

25 forceps, at 20 cents 5. 00 

398 funnels, ordinary, at 15 cents 59. 70 

20 funnels, separating, at $1.50 30. 00 

60 funnels, thistle, at 10 cents 6. 00 

Furnace bomb 41. 00 

Furnace bomb, old 10. 00 

Gas analy. app., Hempel's 35. 00 

Generator, Parson's 25. 00 

8 generators, Kipp's, at $4.50 36. 00 

1 generator, McCoy's, at $8 ' 8. 00 

3 generators, other forms, at $1 , 3. 00 

5 gas mfeasuring tables, at $1 5. 00 

2 gas regulators, B. and K., at $3.50 7. 00 

3 gas washing bottles, at $1.50 4. 50 

181 pounds glass tubing, at 50 cents 90. 50 

15 pounds glass rod, at 50 cents 7. 50 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 87 

■Inorganic and organic chemistry — Continued. 
Apparatus — Continued . 

6 hydrometers, at |1 16.00 

80 graduates, at 60 cents 48. 00 

6 pairs carbon tubes, at |1 6. 00 

5 dozen jars, at |1.80 9. 00 

Hof mann apparatus 24. 75 

Lecture apparatus 500. 00 

18 magnets, at 10 cents 1. 80 

5. magnifiers, at 35 cents 1. 75 

30 measures, sticks and folding, at 45 cents 13. 50 

Milk tester, Babcock _ 15.50 

5 mortars, agate, at |5 " 15. 00 

100 mortars, porcelain, at 35 cents 35. 00 

2 mortars, iron, at $3.60 7. 20 

3 nitrometers, at $5 15. 00 

Oil tester, New York 7. 50 

Oil tester. Tag 12. 00 

Ozone apparatus 3. 50 

40 pipettes, at 50 cents 20. 00 

4 pliers, at 60 cents 2. 40 

Polariscope, new 27. 00 

Polariscope, old 25. 00 

12 potash bulbs, at $1 12. 00 

24 receivers, at 20 cents 5. 80 

150 retorts, glass, at 30 cents 45. 00 

1 mercury retort 2. 50 

12 retorts, iron, at 50 cents 6. 00 

411 feet rubber tubing, at 12 cents 49. 32 

14 pounds rubber stoppers, at $2 28. 00 

Reagents and bottles 200. 00 

79 sand baths and plates, at 10 cents 7. 90 

Sieves 9. 00 

40 spatulas, horn, force and Fe, at 15 cents 6. 00 

Spectroscopes, large 140. 00 

Spectroscopes, medium 60. 00 

Spectroscopes, pocket 8. 00 

6 stopcocks, brass and glass, at |1 6. 00 

12 supports, burettes, at |1 12. 00 

Support, pipettes 2. 50 

Support, retorts 1-00 

80 supports, test tubes, at 60 cents 48. 00 

6 supports, tables, at $1.25 7. 50 

19 gross test tubes, at $3 57. 00 

2 thermometers, Beekman, at $9 - 18. 00 

84 thermometers, general, at $1.20 100. 80 

Testing outfit for dyestuffs 25. 00 

24 tubes, ignition, at 10 cents 2. 40 

15 tripods,''at 30 cents 4. 50 

12 urinometers, Doremas, at 85 cents 10. 20 

Vapor density apparatus 10. 00 

Water-testing apparatus 25. 00 

24 water baths, at $2 48. 00 

100 weights, ordinary, $1.25 125. 00 

8 weights, analytical, at $8 64. 00 

473 watch glasses, at 5 cents 23. 65 

96 wash bottles, at 25 cents 24. 00 

1 Jones reductor 2. 50 

1 carbon crucible, E and A 50. 00 

Sundries not enumerated 500. 00 



8, 518. 18 
Equipment — 

150 chairs, at $1 each 150. 00 

Lecture table 100.00 

6 cases, with glass doors 225. 00 

14 sets of shelves 140. 00 



88 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Inorganic and organic chemistry — Continued. 
Equipment — Continued. 

2 balance shelves $15. 00 

12 tables 60. 00 

13 laboratory working tables 260. 00 

8 laboratory hoods 80. 00 

1, 010. 00 

Apparatus and supplies 8, 518. 18 



Total 9, 528. 18 

Assaying: 

Apparatus and supplies — 

1 acid dish, porcelain, 5i inches 1. 00 

1 air pump 10. 00 

2 annealing cups .20 

2 anvils 7. 00 

Abestos board 1. 50 

'' 1 balance, analytical 65. 00 

3 balances, assay 195. 00 

2 balances, for pulp 70. 00 

1 balance, for pulp 8. 00 

2 sets weights 8. 00 

1 set assay ton weights 6. 00 

3 dozen beakers, glass 5. 40 

7 beakers, porcelain ' 5. 25 

1 bell glass, 11 inches 4. 50 

1 glass plate, for bell glass 1. 00 

1 bellows, Fletcher's, 9 inches 5. 00 

1 blast lamp, Bunsen's 3. 60 

1 blast lamp, Fletcher's 3. 50 

1 blow pipe, brass, plain, 8 inches .08 

3 bottles reagent, 16 ounces 1. 00 

4 bottles reagent, 8 ounces 1. 00 

3 dozen bottles reagent, 4 ounces 6. 75 

8 dozen bottles, as containers 3. 20 

1 bottle, balsam .35 

h dozen weighing bottles i. 00 

i dozen bottle caps .60 

I dozen brushes for test tubes .19 

I dozen brushes, camel's hair .05 

1 brush, camel's hair, 1 inch .20 

^ dozen burettes 9. 00 

1 burner, alcohol lamp .35 

^ dozen bm-ners, Bunsen's 1. 50 

1 dozen burners, Bunsen's, porcelain 3. 00 

1 dozen burners, Fletcher's 5. 00 

1 aekalimeter, Rohrbeck's, for CO2 1. 70 

1 centrifuge 20. 00 

2 clamps, brass, for test tubes - .60 

^ dozen clamps, iron 3. 00 

2 clamps, spring .30 

1 combustion boat .30 

2 condensers 2. 50 

' IJ dozens porcelain crucibles 2. 40 

' 4 perforated crucibles, porcelain 1. 40 

( 1 crucible, Rose's .50 

(. 1 crucible, plumbago .35 

f 3 crucibles, plumbago, 13-inch, with covers 3. 00 

- 2| gross Battersea crucibles and covers 40. 00 

2 dozen Battersea crucibles, small .60 

2 dozen crucibles, Denver E 1. 40 

? 1 crucible, Skidmore's 2. 00 

1 pair crucible tongs ^ . 75 

2 crucible tongs 3. 50 

'. 1 crusher and rubber 12. 00 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 89 

Assaying — Continued. 

Apparatus and supplies — Continued. 

1 gross capels $4. 00 

1 capel mold, li 3. 00 

4 capel tongs 4. 00 

1 capel tray, holding 16 capels 1-25 

1 cylinder, graduated -35 

1 cylinder, graduated, 250 cubic centimeters, double .90 

1 cylinder, graduated, 200 cubic centimeters, double .80 

2 cylinders, graduated, 1,000 cubic centimeters, double 2. 35 

4 desiccators, 5-inch- 4. 00 

1 dozen dishes, evaporating 2. 25 

1 drying oven, single wall 6. 50 

1 drying oven, double wall 7. 50 

1 drying tube, 16-inch 1-10 

3 drying tubes for CaCl, -36 

1 electrolytic apparatus 40. 00 

1 extraction apparatus, Wiley 5. 00 

Filter paper 2. 50 

1 aspirator 1-75 

1 filtering apparatus, Witt 4. 50 

3J dozens flasks, assorted 8. 00 

I flask, filtering -50 

II flasks, volumetric, 25 cubic centimeters to 1 liter 4. 00 

3 dozen funnels, glass 3. 60 

1 funnel, Buchner, 4-inch 1-25 

5 funnels, tubes, thistle -30 

1 furnace, assay 20. 00 

1 furnace, assay, combination gas 20. 00 

2 furnaces, in battery 35. 00 

4 fire brick fittings for furnace 2. 00 

1 generator, Kipp, J pint 3. 00 

20 pounds glass tubes and rods 10. 00 

3 goldpans, Miner's washing pans 1-50 

4 graduates, 1 dram to 4 ounces -90 

3 hammers -75 

2 hydrometers 1-50 

1 reduction tube, funnel top 2. 50 

1 magnifying glass -60 

1 measure, folding -45 

1 mortar, iron 1. 65 

1 mortar. Buck's, for amalgamating 8.00 

1 mortar, glass .•> -45 

3 mortars, porcelain 1-65 

5 molds, pouring ■ 5. 00 

4 dozen muffles > 38. 40 

1 set pipettes 1-50 

1 plate, for color reaction -65 

1 potash bulb apparatus, Geissler 1-00 

2 scarifier tongs 2. 00 

2 scoops -70 

1 pair scissors -75 

1 dozen sieves 10. 00 

13^ gross scorifiers, 2^ inches 14. 70 

13 dozen scorifiers, 4 inches 4. 50 

J gross roasting dishes 5. 40 

7 spatulas, steel 2. 45 

1 stopcock, 3-way 1-50 

'' 4 supports, for retorts 1-40 

3 supports, for burettes 3. 00 

1 support, for funnels, 12 holes 3. 50 

1 support, for 12-test tubes 1-00 

' 1 support, for 36-test tubes, iron -40 

1 syphon, glass, Sedlaczek's, 20 inches 1-50 

5 dozen test tubes 1-50 

3 thermometers 4. 20 

I 3 tripods 1-20 



90 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Assaying — Continued . 

Apparatus and supplies — Continued. 

1 wash bottle |0. 75 

1 water bath, constant level 5. 00 

2 water baths, round 2. 00 

1 small ore crusher 10. 00 

2 large ore crushers 100. 00 

1 leather-faced mallet .25 

1 J-horsepower electric motor 6. 00 

1 rotary blower 5. 00 

1 electric lathe, with attachments 35. 00 

1 muffle hoe .25 

2 4-gallon slop jars 1. 50 

4 2-gallon slop jars 2. 00 

1 6-Bunson parting flask support 3. 00 

2 3-jet French glass-blowers' lamp 9. 00 

1 dozen pipestem triangles .50 

2 stirrers for roasting. .50 

1 small beam balance 1. 00 

1 knife .25 

1 gross stirring rods 2. 50 

5 dozen watch glasses 3. 00 

2 demijohns 1. 00 

3 Kjeldehl flasks .75 

1 carbon tube .30 

1 set glass-blowers' tools 5. 00 

12 cup button holder .75 

1 watch-glass holder .10 

1 3-inch agate mortar and pestle 5. 00 

3 endrometers 1. 50 

1 tabulated bell jar .75 

50 pounds solid reagents 20. 00 

I barrel stone ash 5. 00 

1 keg silica 3. 00 

1 keg sodium bicarbonate '. 3. 00 

200 pounds litharge 24. 00 

100 pounds test lead 25. 00 

^ bushel borax 3. 00 

10 2J-liter stock solutions 2. 00 

3 blue glasses .15 



1, 143. 28 



Equipment: 

6 chairs and stool .■ 6. 00 

9 tables 45. 00 

5 sets of shelves 25. 00 

1 laboratory working table 50. 00 

2 hoods 20. 00 

146. 00 

Apparatus and supplies 1, 143. 28 

Total 1, 289. 28 



Electro-chemistry : 

Apparatus and supplies — 

1 Holtzer-Cabot direct-current-alternating-current motor genera- 
tor, 3 K. P., with starting box, rheostat, etc 200. 00 

1 Crocker- Wheeler direct-current-direct-current motor generator, 
with starting box, rheostat, etc. (property Doctor Chalford) 

(about) 200. 00 

1 Tesla high-frequency high-potential transformer 75. 00 

1 Hanzel and Van Winkle generator, 5 horsepower (gift), at No. 

2128 Bancroft place (about) 75. 00 

1 chemical balance 50. 00 

1 rotary pressure pump 20. 00 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 91 

Electro-chemistry — Continued . 

Apparatus and supplies — Continued . 

1 crucible gas furnace $15. 00 

Electric wiring, switches, etc 65. 00 

Lamp bank and experimental lamps 10. 00 

1 electric furnace (gift) 50. 00 

2 storage battery exhibits 30. 00 

Electric storage battery (gift) _. 32. 00 

1 double-felt-lined colorimeter for electro-chemical experiments. . . 5. 00 

Heavy electrical conductors to main feed 60. 00 

887. 00 



Equipment — 

1 instrument case with glass doors 15. 00 

Partitioning, workbench, and interior fittings (about) 150. 00 

Window shades 36. 00 

2 blackboards 10.00 

5 tables 25.00 

2 pictures (gift) 

236. 00 
Apparatus and supplies 887.. 00 

Total - 1, 123. 00 

Exhibit F. 

Teachers^ college. 

The teachers' college is housed in a four-story building, situated at 1534 I street 
N. W. 

1. First floor: (a) dean's office, 26 by 13^ feet; (6) cloak room, 11| by 9 feet; (c) 
library, 20 by 20 feet. Second floor: {a) lecture room, 34 by 20 feet; (&) class room, 

19 by 20 J feet. Third floor: (a) class room, 34 by 20 feet; (&) seminar room, 17 J by 
10^ feet; (c) office, 24 by 9 feet; (d) dark room, 6J by 9 feet. Fourth floor: Labora- 
tory, four rooms — (a) workroom, 10 by 27 feet; (6) workroom, 10 by 26 feet; (c) shop, 
9 by 19 feet; {d) dark room, 10 by l^ feet. 

2. Second floor: (a) large room, seating capacity, 50; (6) smaller room, seating 
capacity, 30. Third floor: (a) class room, seating capacity, 30; (6) seminar room, 
seating capacity, 10. 

3. The psychological laboratory (referred to under "1" above) occupies the fourth 
floor and one room on the third floor of the education building. The size of the rooms 
is given under "1". 

The laboratory equipment consists of the following apparatus, tools, charts, etc.: 

1 model of eye $3. 25 

1 model of ear 3. 90 

1 prism .30 

1 set of gray papers -92 

1 set of colored papers 1. 98 

1 color mixer 6. 00 

1 color mixer (electric) 5. 50 

1 colored disk (Nos. 1-15), at 2 cents .33 

1 colored disk (Nos. 1-15), at 4 cents .66 

20 cross-ruled paper, 20 sheets .27 

4 tuning forks, 4, A and C .72 

1 pseudoptics 5. 50 

36 stereoscope slides 3. 30 

1 stereoscope 1. 65 

1 esthesiometer 2. 20 

2 telegraph snappers .55 

1 set of suggestion blocks 5. 50 

1 perimeter 9. 90 

1 clamp 1. 10 

1 olfactometer 3.85 

1 support 1. 10 



92 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 vernier chronoscope $11. 00 

1 holmgren wools 2. 75 

1 set of brushes .50 

2 Y tubes 20 

11 dividers , .22 

12 feet rubber tubing 1. 08 

1 Masson's disk .55 

1 protractor .27 

2 temperature cylinders (extra cylinder) 3. 80 

1 set of dies .55 

3 puzzle pictures .33 

1 set Quincke's tubes .• 2. 50 

2 color tops .16 

5 beakers .45 

3 wire gauze .15 

1 Bunsen burner .30 

1 balance 1. 00 

1 set of weights .75 

1 set of blank cards .11 

1 metronome 3. 50 

1 compass .15 

1 stop watch 6. 50 

1 memory apparatus 11. 00 

1 set stimulus and test cards 6. 60 

1 Wilson gummed letters, 1 set 1. 92 

1 chart, nervous system 1. 00 

1 chart, sense organs 1. 00 

1 astigmatic dial .50 

1 Snellen test type .25 

1 reading test type .25 

1 Dandolt test type .25 

1 tool chest and tools 18. 00 

1 workbench 10. 80 

Nails, screws, etc 1. 00 

6 tables 6. 00 

8 chairs 4. 00 

1 apparatus case 10. 00 



168. 09 



4. (a) Ten students are enrolled for laboratory work this year, (b) About 30 stu- 
dents could be accommodated by working in sections of 10 each. 

The apparatus of the above equipment of the psychological laboratory was pur- 
chased out of a fund of 1150, contributed in |25 subscriptions by friends of the uni- 
versity interested in providing, instruction in experimental psychology, particularly 
for teachers. Most of the students now enrolled in laboratory work are teachers in 
service in the public schools. 

Arts and crafts equipment: Friends of the university interested in establishing 
in the university studio courses in the household arts raised and donated to the uni- 
versity for the purpose the sum of $1,060, which was expended upon the equipment 
of four studios, as follows: Metal work, designing, free-hand drawing and water-color 
painting, and artistic bookbinding. Although the studio courses in these branches 
were necessarily discontinued at the end of last year, the studio equipment remains 
in the possession of the university for possible future use. 

Exhibit G. 

college of medicine. 

• May 7, 1910. 
Dr. Charles W. Needham, President, 

The George Washington University. 
Dear Doctor Needham: In compliance with your directions of April 29, I submit 
herewith a detailed statement of the capacity of the medical college building, together 
with a statement of all class rooms, giving the number of students that can be accom- 
modated in each. 

A statement is also given of the laboratories, showing an inventory of machinery 
and equipment, the number of students enrolled for work in each laboratory for this 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 93 

year, and the number that can be accommodated. In itemizing the machinery and 
equipment, only material has been entered which is in use and serviceable. 

Relative to the value of the articles, the estimate submitted has been made by the 
professors in charge of the laboratories. Their estimate in most cases is an approxi- 
mate one, but they have been, I believe, as conservative as possible in their estimates. 

In many cases an estimated value could not be given for the reason that there was 
absolutely no information immediately obtainable by which the value could be 
arrived at. To arrive at an estimate, it would be necessary to make a search of cata- 
logues, the treasurer's expenditures, and in many cases employ experts. 
Very truly, yours, 

W. C. Borden, Dean. 

Statement of the capacity of the medical college building, giving the nianher and sizes of 

rooms hy floors. 

Entire space covered by college building, 144 by 51 feet. 

First floor: Entrance hall, 65 feet by 9 feet 6 inches; stairway space, 22 by 24 feet; 
dean's office, 16 by 17 feet; clerk's ofnce, 10 by 17 feet; faculty room, 20 by 17 feet; 
student's assembly room, 15 by 17 feet; class room No. 1, 18 by 17 feet; museum, 37 by 
17 feet; professor's room, 9 by 17 feet; elevator shaft, 5 by 10 feet; janitor's room, 8 feet 
by 10 feet 6 inches; professor's preparatory room, 8 by 19 feet; toilet, 22 by 10 feet; 
workshop, 18 by 9 feet; cold-storage room, 13 by 9 feet; injection room, 16 by 9 feet; 
2 storage rooms, 6 by 12 feet; rear hall, 50 by 6 feet; bicycle space, 35 by 8 feet; lower 
part of lecture hall No. 1, 48 by 21 feet. 

Second floor: Stairv,-ay hall, 20 feet by 19 feet 6 inches; main hall, 40 feet by 9 feet 6 
inches; physiological research laboratory, 16 by 12 feet; physiological laboratory, 
50 by 17 feet; excessory physiological laboratory, 20 by 10 feet; class room No. 2, 32 by 
17 feet; 4 professor's rooms, each 17 by. 8 feet; 1 professor's room, 6 by 10 feet; 1 pro- 
fessor's room, 7 by 10 feet; janitor's room, 10 by 13 feet; 2 preparatory rooms, 10 feet 
6 inches by 15 feet; lecture hall No. 1, 50 by 50 feet. 

Third floor: Stairway hall, 22 by 24 feet; hall, 16 by 6 feet; chemical laboratory, 
50 by 48 feet; chemical storeroom, 14 by 14 feet; chemical preparatory room, 14 by 
20 feet; laboratory, 1*3 by 11 feet; professor's room, 7 feet 6 inches by 11 feet; 2 prepara- 
tion rooms, 8 feet 6 inches by 15 feet 6 inches; lower part of lecture hall No. 2, 50 
by 48 feet; lecture hall, No. 3, 50 by 23 feet. 

Fourth floor: Stairway, 22 by 24 feet; hall, 48 by 5 feet; dental room, 80 by 17 feet; 
dental laboratory, 22 by 23 feet; dental laboratory, 24 by 23 feet; extracting room, 
9 feet 6 inches by 10 feet; toilet, 5 by 10 feet; toilet, 6 by 11 feet; professor's 
room, 6 feet 6 inches by 11 feet; histological preparation room, 9 by 11 feet; professor's 
room, 9 feet 6 inches by 11 feet; preparation room, 8 feet 6 inches by 11 feet; histo- 
logical and embryological laboratory, 23 by 50 feet; library, 23 by 50 feet. 

Fifth floor: Stairway hall, 22 by 24 feet; hall, 5 by 21 feet; dissecting room, 48 by 
48 feet; bone room, 5 feet 6 inches by 11 feet; professor's room, 10 by 11 feet; class 
room, 18 by 16 feet; prospecting room, 16 by 10 feet; toilet, 6 by 11 feet; pathological 
and bacteriological laboratory, 50 by 48 feet; pathological storeroom, 15 by 5 feet; 
bacteriological preparation room, 16 by 12 feet; clinical laboratory, 9 by 11 feet; 
professor's room, 7 feet 6 inches by 11 feet. 

Sixth floor: Animal room, 22 feet 6 inches by 16 feet 6 inches; animal room, 16 feet 
8 inches by 16 feet. 

Statement of class rooms in the medical college building, with the number of students 
that can be accommodated at a class period in each room. 

Number of students 
accommodated. 

Classroom No. 1 25 

Students' assembly room 25 

Class room No. 2 75 

Lecture hall No. 1 375 

Lecture hall No. 2 350 

Lecture hall No. 3 150 

Anatomical laboratory 150 

Pathological and bacteriological laboratory 100 

Histological laboratory 80 

Chemical laboratory 92 

Physiological laboratory • 75 



94 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

To this should be added the following, used for students in the university 
hospital : 

Operating amphitheater $75 

Clinical class room 1 50 

X-ray room 5 

Statement of laboratories in the medical college building, giving the size of each and a 
detailed inventory of the machinery and equipment, with number of students enrolled in 
each for this year and the number that can be accommodated. 

Anatomical laboratory, 48 by 48 feet. Accessory rooms to anatomical laboratory. 
Bone room, 5 feet 6 inches by 11 feet. Prospecting room, 16 by 10 feet. 

Students enrolled for work in this laboratory this year: Medical, 12; dental, 15; 
total, 27. Number of students that can be accommodated, 150. 

Inventory of equipTnent. 

Estimated value. 

16 dissecting tables $80. 00 

20 dissecting stools 20. 00 

Injecting apparatus 50. 00 

Bone boiler 10. 00 

7 galvanized-iron section boxes 70. 00 

100 lockers 300. 00 

25 galvanized-iron buckets 5. 00 

5 earthenware jars 5. 00 

6 wash basins, with plumbing 90. 00 

5 towel racks .75 

1 blackboard 5. 00 

6 stereoscopes 6. 00 

1 stereoscopic anatomy 48. 00 

4 human skeletons 100. 00 

400 assorted bones Unknown. 

1 disarticulated head 50. 00 

253 anatomical charts 400. 00 

200 lantern slides 100. 00 

5 models of the head 50. 00 

1 model of the human body 100. 00 

1 model of the human body 50. 00 

1 electric saw for cutting frozen sections of the human body 200. 00 

3 tanks for preservmg bodies 175. 00 

Dissecting instruments, 29, of all kinds , 14. 50 

There is also on the first floor of the building a cold-storage room for pre- 
serving human bodies with a Remington refrigerating machine 1, 500. 00 

Total 3, 429. 25 

Histological laboratory, 23 by 50 feet. 

Number of students enrolled for this year in this laboratory: Medical, 12; special, 
1; veterinary students, 17; dental students, 17; total, 47. 

Inventory of equipment. 

Laboratory tables and desks equipped with electric lights for 30 students. . $80. 00 

40 stools, at 75 cents 30. 00 

72 lockers 20. 00 

Incubator and thermoregulator 25. 00 

Microscope case 25. 00 

50 sets microscopical preparations, at $15 750. 00 

63 compound microscopes, at $30 1, 890. 00 

Paraffin bath , 12. 00 

Projection apparatus 100. 00 

2 microtomes and knives 90. 00 

1 microtome and knife 23. 18 

740 reagent and specimen bottles, at 5 cents 37. 00 

350 staining dishes, at 4 cents 14. 00 

200 bottles, at 8 cents 16. 00 



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40 stock solution bottles, at 25 cents $10. 00 

50 balsam bottles, at 15 cents 7. 50 

5 specimen jars, at $2 10. 00 

34 specimen jars, at 20 cents 6. 80 

300 embedding blocks 16. 60 

16 gallons formalin 12. 08 

2,500 cubic centimeters absolute alcohol 3. 75 

10 gallons zylol 22. 00 

1,000 cubic centimeters oil of thyme 3. 00 

20 pounds paraffin 2. 20 

Filter paper S. 00 

6 glass graduates 4. 30 

50 funnels 7. 00 

2 scalpels .50 

2 gross glass slides 1. 70 

Small quantities of various stains and reagents 40. 00 

Miscellaneous laboratory accessories 20. 00 

Reference books 20. 00 

Total 3, 307. 61 

In addition to the above, there are many hundred specimens of tissues preserved in 
bottles of different sizes for class use. These specimens have been collected from time 
to time and it is impossible to place any money value upon them, but they represent a 
large value in time and labor. 

Chemical laboratory, 50 by 48 feet; accessory laboratory, 13 by ll feet. 

Students enrolled for work in this laboratory this year: Medical, 54; veterinary, 
44; dental, 21; total, 119. Number of students that can be accommodated at one 
time, 92. 

Laboratory equipment, exclusive of cliemicals and apparatus. 
Articles: 

92 desks, with plumbing and gas fitting |500. 00 

Sink, 11, with plumbing (estimated) 220. 00 

8 hoods, with gas fitting and plumbing 175. 00 

24 incandescent lamps, with fittings 24. 00 

Shelving (estimated) 35. 00 

2 glass cases, preparation room 20. 00 

4 desks, in preparation room 20. 00 

6 chairs ' 6. 00 

3 tables 10. 00 



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Apparatus : 

101 Bunsen burners 25. 25 

Wash bottles, 6-ounce, fitted 36. 00 

Funnels — 

2 (1,000 cubic centimeters) 2. 00 

8 dozen (250 cubic centimeters) 38. 40 

150 beakers 40. 00 

15 dozen test glasses 54. 00 

8 gross test tubes 17. 28 

100 test-tube holders 10. 00 

125 test-tube racks .• 50. 00 

36 test-tube brushes 3. 60 

3 dozen medium evaporating dishes 10. 80 

1 dozen large evaporating dishes 6. 00 

108 iron stands, with clamps 70. 10 

95 mortars and pestles for class work — (1 large, 1 medium) 90. 00 

120 files, round 6. 00 

120 files, triangular 6. 00 

10 dozen blue glass 10. 00 

120 hydrogen flasks, fitted 36. 00 

100 arsenic plates 8. 00 

75 blowpipes 15. 00 

1 square yard wire gauze .40 

9 dozen watch glasses 10. 80 



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Apparatus — Continued . 

15 dozen pipettes |45. 00 

136 pincers 13. 60 

159 spatulas 57. 70 

18 grams platinum wire, at |1.50 per gram 19. 80 

40 grams platinum foil, at |1.10 per gram 44. 00 

Graduate glasses — 

90 (250 cubic centimeters) 45. 00 

124 (25 cubic centimeters) 43. 40 

36 urinometers 21. 60 

Ureometers — 

10 dozen demonstration 48. 00 

1 Hines Doremus 4. 50 

15 burettes, with stopcock 52. 50 

8 dozen burettes 120. 00 

25 thermometers, dairy 3. 75 

38 thermometers, chemical 37. 20 

36 flasks, distillation 10. 80 

15 flasks, Florence 6. 00 

12 flasks, graduate, 1-liter 8. 40 

1 flask, graduate, 500-liter .55 

2 flasks, graduate, 100 cubic centimeters .46 

12 flasks, Erlenmeyer 3.00 

9 balances, at $35 335. 00 

1 balance 25.00 

1 balance 45. 00 

1 polariscope 25. 00 

1 microscope, demonstration 12. 00 

2 spectroscopes 13. 00 

3 evaporating dishes, large 3. 00 

13 balances, pharmacists' 39. 00 

1 set balances, for rough work 8. 00 

1 graduate, 1,000 cubic centimeters 1. 00 

1 graduate, 1,500 cubic centimeters 1. 00 

Weights — 

14 sets in boxes 28. 00 

1 gold-plated set 11. 00 

1 still, water, continuous 13. 50 

1 still, alcohol 8. 00 

15 Liebig condensers 30. 00 

2 water baths 4. 50 

4 Kipp generators, large (only 2 in good condition) 18. 00 

1 large blowpipe with foot bellows 6. 50 

1 large mortar and pestle 2. 25 

7 vapor flasks 3. 50 

1 large Gooch funnel 2. 50 

2 small Gooch funnels 2. 00 

1 large drying bath ■. 2. 40 

2 small drying baths 2. 40 

1 separating funnel, 1,000 cubic centimeters 2. 50 

2 separating funnels, 500 cubic centimeters 2. 25 

4 Gooch flasks, 500 cubic centimeters 3. 00 

1 Gooch flask, 2,000 cubic centimeters 1. 25 

1 platinum Gooch crucible 32. 75 

2 sulphuric-acid bottles 3. 00 

IWoulf bottle 1.10 

11 test tubes, with base 1.65 

5 small flasks (Erlenmeyer) 1. 50 

5 large flasks (Erlenmeyer) 3. 00 

160 blowpipe tips for burners 8. 00 

2 Cook presses 3. 00 

1 large water bath, chemical laboratory. 2. 80 

Rubber stoppers 3.25 

Rubber sheeting .75 

Rubber tubing 1. 60 

Rubber tubing pressure 1-80 

Glass tubing 8. 00 

Microscope 35. 00 



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Apparatus — Continued. 

Reagent bottles, chemical laboratory — 

12 dozen, 250 cubic centimeters, at $3.60 per dozen |43. 20 

100 dozen, 125 cubic centimeters, at $2.70 per dozen 270. 00 

20 dozen, 125 cubic centimeters, wide mouth, at $3 per dozen 60. 00 

150 5-pint glass-stoppered stock bottles, at 15 cents 22. 50 

Total 2, 284. 34 

Chemicals: 

Ammonium h5droxid, 40 pounds 4. 80 

Ammonium chlorid, 1 pound .15 

Ammonium phosphate, 3-| pounds .88 

Ammonium nitrate, 4 pounds 1. 00 

Ammonium nitrate, 3i- pounds 3. 50 

Ammonium carbonate, I5 pounds .30 

Ammonium benzoate, ^ pound .40 

Ammonium oxalate. If pounds .75 

Ammonium molybdate, 1 pound 2. 00 

Aluminum sulphate, 1 pound "... .10 

Aluminum chloride 1^ pounds .90 

Aluminum potass, sulphate, 8 J pounds .■ 2. 13 

Antimony et potassium tartrate, 1 ounce .05 

Antimony chlorid, 1 pound 1. 40 

Antimony sulfid, | pound .75 

Arsenic acid, 4^- ounces .05 

Arsenous acid, 4 ounces .05 

Barium carbonate, 10 ounces .30 

Barium nitrate, If pounds .88 

Barium hydroxid, 2-h pounds .50 

Bai'iuni nitrate, I pound .10 

Bismuth subnitrate, 'l pound 2. 00 

Bismuth chlorid, 100 grams .75 

Bromine, 4 pounds 3. 20 

Calcium chlorid, pm-e, 5^ pounds 1. 65 

Calcium chlorid, crude, 1 pound .05 

Calcium sulphate c. p., A pound .40 

Cadmium chlorid, | pound 1. 50 

Carbon by-sulphid, J pound .10 

Chi'omic acid, 1^ ounces .20 

Cerium oxalate, 2 pounds 6 ounces 1. 25 

Chrome alum, 2 pounds .30 

Cobalt nitrate, IJ pounds 2. 00 

Copper foil c. p., 3 pounds 2.25 

Copper chlorid, 6 ounces .20 

Copper sulphate, 5 pounds .75 

Copper acetate, IJ pounds .50 

Copper oxid, 5 pounds 1. 25 

Copper tartrate, 14 ounces .30 

Ferric chlorid, 3 pounds .90 

Ferric sulphate, 12 pounds 1. 20 

Ferric sulphate, granulated, 5 pounds .60 

Ferric acetate, 1 pound .40 

Ether, 10 pounds 6. 00 

Lead acetate, 3J pounds .70 

Lead oxid. If pounds .18 

Lead nitrate, 4 ounces .05 

Lithium chlorid, 6 ounces .65 

Magnesium sulphate, 7| pounds .75 

Magnesium chlorid, J pound .13 

Magnesium oxid, light, J pound .35 

Magnesium carbonate, 1 pound .50 

Manganese chlorid, 1 pound .30 

Manganese di-oxid, 14 pounds 1. 40 

Manganese, sulphate, 2 pounds 1. 00 

Mercury, metallic, 4 pounds 3. 40 

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98 GEORGE WASHINGTOJSr UNIVERSITY. 

Chemicals — Continued. 

Mercury oxid, ^ pound $0. 85 

Mercuric chlorid, 5 pounds 5. 00 

Mercurous chlorid, 1 pound 1. 10 

Mercurous nitrate, 1 pound 1. 50 

Mercury cyanid, 1 pound 2. 00 

Nitrous acid , 4 pounds 1. 20 

Nickel sulphate, 1 pound .25 

Nickel ammon. sulphate, 1 pound .20 

Nickel chlorid, J pound .38 

Phosphorus, sticks, 1 pound 1. 00 

Phosphorix anhydrid, ^ pound .75 

Phosphorix acid, ^ pound .20 

Phosphorix acid, meta, 1^ pounds .98 

Potassium bromide, 3^ pounds 1. 35 

Potassium arsenate, 1 pound .40 

Potassium acetate, 1 pound .35 

Potassium sulphocyanate, 1 pound .80 

Potassium carbonate, 5 pounds 1. 00 

Potassium chlorate, 17 pounds 5. 95 

Potassium dichromate, 1 pound .18 

Potassium cyanid, 1^ pounds .60 

Potassium citrate, 1 pound .60 

Potassium chromate, If pounds .70 

Potassium ferricyanid, 3| pounds 3. 50 

Potassium f errocyanid, 4^ pounds 2. 50 

Potassium hydroxid, 23 pounds 5. 75 

Potassium thiocyanate, 1 pound .80 

Potassium iodide, IJ pounds 3. 45 

Potassium permanganate, 4 pounds 1. 00 

Potassium nitrate, 3 pounds .45 

Potassium sulphate, 1 pound .15 

Potassium tartrate, J pound .15 

Silver nitrate, ^ pound 2. 00 

Sodium, metal, 1^ pounds 1. 50 

Sodium chloride, 20 pounds 1. 00 

Sodium borate, 5 pounds .75 

Sodium potassium tartrate, 5 pounds 1. 75 

Sodium hydroxid, 15 pounds 3. 75 

Sodium carbonate, 6 pounds .60 

Sodium arsenate, 2 ounces .05 

Sodium bicarbonate, 1 pound .10 

Sodium nitrate, sticks, 2 pounds 1. 00 

Sodium nitrate, crystals, 2^ pounds .50 

Sodium molybdate, 5 ounces .60 

Sodium phosphate, 2 pounds .30 

Sodium sulphate, 2| pounds .65 

Sodium salicylate, 6 ounces .20 

Sodium tartrate, 8 ounces .38 

Sodium hyposulphate, 2 pounds .20 

Strontium chloride, 4 ounces .05 

Sulphur, flowers, 2 pounds .20 

Stannic chlorid, 8 ounces .30 

Stannic(ous) chloride, 6 ounces .20 

Stannic(ic) acid, 4 ounces .15 

Uranium acetate, 4 ounces 2. 00 

Uranium nitrate, 10 ounces 4. 00 

Carbamid, If pounds 8. 40 

Zinc, metallic, 1 pound .20 

Zinc, chlorid, IJ pounds .30 

Zinc, sticks, 1 pound .50 

Zinc, acetate, 3 ounces .05 

Zinc sulphate, 2^ pounds .25 

Hydrofluoric acid, 1^ ounces .05 

Phloroglucin, 5 grams '. 1. 00 

Starch, J pound .05 

Acetone, 4 pounds 1. 20 



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Glycerin, 6^ pounds _ II. 95 

Chloroform, ^ pound ' .40 

Pyridin, 4 ounces .75 

Naphthol, 1 ounce .05 

Acetic ether, 12 ounces ' .60 

Acid: 

Nitric, fuming, 2 pounds 1. 20 

Nitric, c. p., 7 pounds .70 

Sulphuric, c. p., 36 pounds 2. 88 

Hydrochloric, c. p., 12 pounds 1. 08 

Acetic, 1 pound .20 

Diacetic, 1 pound 1. 25 

Propionic, 4 ounces .75 

Citric, 3 pounds 1. 50 

Trichloracetic, 1^ pounds .38 

Oxalic, 10^ pounds 4. 20 

Tannic, J pound .40 

Tartaric, 10 pounds 4. 00 

Salicylic, 5 pounds 2. 30 

Benzoic, 5 pounds 3. 25 

Picric, 1:^- pounds .70 

Molybdic, 1 pound 1. 90 

Carbolic, 2 pounds .60 

Lactic, 2 pounds 1. 40 

Sulphanilic, J pound 1. 00 

Acetus, glacial, | pound .75 

Naphthylamine sulphonic, 1 pound 8. 00 

Methyl alcohol, 1 pint .05 

Phenylhydrazin hydrochlorid, 1^ pints 3. 75 

Lactose, 1 pound .15 

Glucose, 8 pounds .80 

Peptone, | pound , . 2. 40 

Hydrogen peroxid, 1 pound .60 

Indigo, 8 ounces .30 

Dextrin, 12 ounces .10 

Benzol, f pound .12 

Ox bile, 1 pound .60 

Hemp seed, 3 pounds .15 

Diphenylamine, 8 ounces 1. 25 

12 ounces .30 



190. 23 

Electro-therapeutic laboratory. — Size of laboratory, 12 by 9 feet. Number of students 
enrolled for work in that laboratory this year, 32. Number of students that can be 
accommodated in the laboratory, 5. (Work with the X-ray apparatus is of such a 
character that students can be instructed only in small sections; hence the small size 
of the laboratory.) Equipment: One Scheidell western X-ray apparatus, with all 
necessary accessory electrical appliances, X-ray tubes and one large compression 
diaphragm and stand, $730. 

Physiological laboratory. — Fifty by 17 feet. Accessory laboratory, 20 by 10 feet; 
physiological research laboratory, 16 by 12 feet. Students enrolled for work in this 
laboratory this year: Medical students, 13; dental students, 17; total, 30. Number 
of students that can be accommodated, 75. (For inventory and equipment, see 
following pages.) 

Inventory, physiological laboratory. 

1 set screens $3. 00 

1 poison cabinet 5. 00 

1 chemical table with sink, water and gas connections 50. 00 

1 chemical table with drawers 30. 00 

1 chemical hood with sink 30. 00 

1 chair 1. 50 

1 stool 1. 00 

1 pound covered copi^er wire .85 

1 pointer .50 

2 keyboards (with keys for lockers) 1. 00 



100 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 flat-bottom flask $0. 25 

^ pound shellac in scales .05 

1 bag salt -■ .05 

1 bottle, 3-liter capacity .25 

2 glass-stoppered bottles, white, 100 cubic centimeters .22 

1 glass-stoppered bottle, cold, 100 cubic centimeters .11 

1 wide-mouth stoppered bottle, white, 100 cubic centimeters .17 

2 glass-stoppered bottles, white, 15 cubic centimeters .12 

1 glass-stoppered bottle, white, 30 cubic centimeters .07 

1 bottle, 1,000 cubic centimeters .15 

2 volumes Schafer Text-Book of Physiology 18. 00 

1 Tigerstrot physiology 4. 00 

1 Howell physiology 4. 00 

2 boxes for rymograph paper 1. 00 

1 handsaw : 1. 15 

1 folding meter rule .20 

2 rheocons 1. 50 

7 dry batteries 1. 40 

1 kilo copper sulphate .40 

i kilo Todwin hydrate K . .k-'<^^r. . .' .35 

I kilo magnesium sulphate .20 

1 pound potassium chloride , .35 

500 grams potassium permanganate .25 

500 grams oxalic acid .40 

500 grams potassium ferrocyanide .40 

150 grams lead acetate -20 

150 grams sulphuric ether .25 

400 grams ammonium sulphate .30 

-J pound salicylic acid -25 

I pound cornstarch .10 

1.7 kilos redistilled mercury 2. 50 

1 pound white vaseline .60 

100 grams glass wool 1. 20 

i pound wheat starch .10 

i pound arrowroot starch -40 

25 grams morphine sulphate 3. 25 

100 grams salol -60 

10 grams pepsin .20 

10 grams hemoglobin .20 

25 grams maltose -50 

15 grams iodine, resublimer -20 

75 grains curare 5-00 

15 grains physostigmine sulphate 1. 10 

1 gram glycogen .60 

5 grams picrotoxin -75 

5 grams cocaine hydrochlorate -60 

10 grams atropine sulphate 2. 50 

i ounce nicotine -75 

25 grams ptyalin -40 

12 grams diastase of malt : -40 

J ounce seyarenal, 1 : 1000. . ..5^^|";'-.^ .' .80 

100 grams dextuse J^S.'^:^:Z z .30 

^ ounce chloroform -25 

200 grams thymol 1-50 

1 pound casein 4. 00 

100 grams casein 1-00 

100 grams lactose -20 

10 grams trypsin 3. 00 

25 grams oxgall -35 

5 grams fibrin -10 

100 grains dextrin -20 

300 grams zinc chloride , -20 

75 grains menthol -75 

20 grams protein .75 

20 grams peptone -25 

1 box Hide's peptone -85 

20 grains acet - -25 



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25 grams litmus |0. 20 

1 box gelatine -25 

10 grams nicotine .75 

10 grams caffein citrate .20 

10 grains carmine -20 

4 grams cocaine hydrochlorate .50 

3 drams menthol, in alcohol .20 

^ gram aconiteine -25 

25 grams phenopthalein .30 

2.5 grams veratrive .25 

50 grams potassium iodide .50 

1 gram atrogine sulphate .25 

15 grams strychnine sulphate .50 

40 grams silver nitrate 1. 00 

10 grams hydrastine hydrochlorate 11. 00 

25 grams strychnine .60 

1 ounce caffein citrate .30 

100 grains chloral hydrate .25 

10 grains eserine sulphate 1. 00 

^ ounce picrotoxin .60 

I gram digitaline .20 

I pound calomel .60 

250 grams emery, medium .10 

250 grams emery, fine .10 

5 bottles, containing litmus and other test paper 1. 00 

32 pearls amylnitrite 1. 00 

5 tubes mucarine 5. 00 

1 kymograph 20. 00 

1 bottle, glass stopper, 100 cubic centimeters .10 

1 rheocord 2. 50 

1 induction 7. 00 

2 standards 1. 50 

3 aluminum styles .15 

20 10-gram weights .20 

1 evaporating dish .16 

1 tuning fork 1. 00 

1 red layer electrode .25 

1 muscle lever 1. 15 

1 signal magnet 1. 00 

1 brant lever .75 

1 femur clamp 1. 00 

1 brant clamp .75 

3 large holders .06 

1 simple key 1. 00 

2 servers' glasses .05 

4 watch glasses .08 

1 dry battery .20 

1 platinum electrode 1. 00 

2 tuning forks 2. 00 

1 wooden stand .90 

1 frog board .60 

1 kymograph 20. 00 

21 iO-gram weights ' .21 

2 aluminum styles .10 

3 muscle levers 3. 45 

1 head lever .75 

1 signal magnet 1. 00 

1 pipette, 2 cubic centimeters .06 

1 evaporating dish .16 

1 plate glass .10 

2 large electrodes .25 

1 platinum electrode 1. 00 

1 crystallizing dish .14 

1 femur clamp 1. 00 

1 head clamp .75 

4 leg holders .08 

1 simple key 1. 00 



102 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 pipette, 1 cubic centimeter $0. 05 

2 standards .75 

4 double clamps .80 

1 battery .20 

1 Bunsen burner .45 

1 rlieocord 2. 50 

1 bottle (glass stoppered) , 100 cubic centimeters .10 

1 inductorium 7. 00 

1 crystallizing disli .14 

1 kymograph 20. 00 

1 bottle (glass stoppered), 100 cubic centimeters .10 

1 rheocord 2. 50 

1 inductorium 7. 00 

2 standards 1. 50 

2 pipettes .10 

1 aluminum style .05 

20 10-gram weights .20 

1 evaporating dish .,16 

1 tuning fork 1. 00 

1 set large electrodes .25 

1 watch glass .02 

1 clamp 1. 00 

1 muscle lever 1. 15 

1 signal magnet 1. 00 

1 head lever .75 

4 leg holders .08 

2 weight pans .20 

1 head clamp .25 

1 frog board .60 

1 simple key 1. 00 

1 induction 7. 00 

1 battery .20 

1 Bunsen burner .45 

1 platinum electrode 1. 00 

2 standards 1. 50 

1 wooden stand .90 

1 femur clamp 1. 00 

1 glass plate .10 

1 frog board .60 

3 watch glasses .06 

4 leg holders .08 

1 signal magnet 1. 00 

1 evaporating dish .16 

2 pipettes .10 

1 small beaker .15 

1 crystallizing dish .14 

1 head lever .75 

1 tuning fork 1. 00 

1 kymograph 20. 00 

2 muscle levers 2. 30 

1 key 1. 00 

1 rheocord 2. 50 

1 bottle (glass stoppered), 100 cubic centimeters. .10 

1 head clamp .75 

3 dry batteries .60 

1 kymograph 20. 00 

1 rheocord 2. 50 

1 Bunsen burner .45 

1 bottle (glass stoppered), 100 cubic centimeters .10 

1 induction 7. 00 

1 platinum electrode 1. 00 

1 wooden stand .90 

1 frog board .60 

20 10-gram weights .20 

4 water glasses .08 

1 evaporating dish .• .16 

1 tuning fork 1. 00 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 103 

1 simple key |1. 00 

2 signal magnets 2. 30 

1 femur clamp 1. 00 

2 pipettes -10 

1 head clamp .75 

1 set large electrodes .25 

2 muscle levers 2. 30 

1 head lever .75 

1 aluminum style .05 

6 leg holders .12 

2 standards 1. 50 

1 weight pan .10 

5 double clamps .^. 1. 00 

1 glass plate -*- .10 

1 crystallizing dish .14 

1 pipette, 1 cubic centimeter .05 

1 pipette, 2 cubic centimeters .06 

1 femur clamp 1.15 

1 kymograph 20. 00 

4 watch glasses .08 

1 pinchcock .10 

1 Bunsen burner .45 

8 record holders 2. 00 

20 10-gram weights .20 

1 rheocord 2. 50 

1 induction 7. 00 

1 large electrode .25 

1 head clamp .75 

1 simple key 1. 00 

1 aluminum stylus .05 

2 standards 1. 50 

1 frog board .60 

1 head lever .75 

1 wooden stand .90 

1 evaporating dish .16 

1 glass plate .10 

1 signal magnet 1. 00 

1 battery .20 

1 platinum electrode 1. 00 . 

1 bottle (glass-stoppered), 100 cubic centimeters .10 

1 circulation apparatus 5. 50 

1 Bunsen burner .45 

1 crystallizing dish .14 

2 scalpels 1.20 

1 pair scissors .50 

3 hemostats 1. 40 

1 cataract knife .85 

1 hemoglobinometer 2. 50 

1 Coddington magnifier 2. 00 

1 specific gravity tester .75 

1 Esbach albuminometer .50 

1 microscope, 3 and 7 objectives 33. 50 

1 trephine * 2. 50 

1 balance, r 12.50 

1 Riva Rocci 12. 00 

1 sphygmograph 12. 00 

1 conical graduate, 30 cubic centimeters .35 

1 porcelain mortar (13 centimeters) and pestle .65 

1 conical graduate, 1,000 cubic centimeters 1. 65 

1 straight graduate, 10 cubic centimeters .28 

1 Bunsen burner and 2 feet rubber tubing .35 

1 bottle, glass-stoppered, 4 liters .50 

1 B. & L. microscope, 3 and 7 objectives 33. 50 

1 thistle tube .06 

2 porcelain dishes, 7.5 centimeters .18 

1 Erlenmeyer flask, 500 cubic centimeters .20 

1 flat-bottom flask, 500 cubic centimeters .28 



104 GEORGE WASHINGTOISr UNIVERSITY. 

1 3-liter bottle, glass-stoppered $0. 50 

1 3-liter bottle, glass-stoppered .25 

1 standard, 90jcentimeters 1. 25 

4 standards, 50 centimeters 2. 60 

1 glass funnel, 9 centimeters .15 

1 beaker, ] ,000 cubic centimeters .50 

1 crockery-ware dipping basket, 6 by 4 inches 1. 00 

1 saucepan, 1-pint, enameled .25 

1 soap dish .25 

1 test-tube brush .06 

2 filter pumps 1. 80 

1 Fletcher high-power burner 3. 15 

2 pipe-stem triangles, 6 centimeters .10 

1 beaker, 1,(500 cubic centimeters . .50 

1 porcelain evaporating dish, 11 centimeters .25 

1 straight graduate, 200 cubic centimeters .70 

100 diamond ink for glass .50 

2 wash bottles, 500 cubic centimeters .50 

3 acid bottles, 250 cubic centimeters, glass-stoppered .75 

2 glass-stoppered bottles, 500 cubic centimeters .36 

7 pounds nitric acid .70 

^ pound ammonia water .25 

4 pounds sulphuric acid .35 

2 pounds nitric acid .30 

2 pounds nitric acid .30 

500 grams acetic acid, 80 per cent .30 

750 grams formaldehyde .60 

1 kilo HA .50 

4 3-liter bottles 1. 00 

1 desk 3. 00 

1 Galton whistle 1. 80 

1 tuning fork with A. 96 4. 50 

1 tuning fork C 1024 2. 00 

1 tuning fork 512 2. 25 

1 tuning fork A .50 

1 tuning fork C .50 

1 tuning fork with Shivers C'' 1. 75 

3 corks, 13 by 10 centimeters .24 

2 cardiographs. 13. 00 

1 oncimeter 16. 80 

1 standard, 50 centimeters .65 

1 glass-stoppered bottle, 250 centimeters .16 

1 porcelain evaporating dish, 13 centimeters .30 

1 hemoglobinometer 2. 50 

1 Thema hemocylometer 6. 50 

1 Erlenmeyer flask, 500 cubic centimeters .20 

1 flat-bottom flask, 500 cubic centimeters .28 

1 tripod .25 

1 ink gauze .05 

1 respirative scheme . 2. 50 

2 soldering cups .65 

1 Layer tripod, 22 centimeters .45 

1 safety thermostat burner 3. 75 

1 spool ball copper wire .50 

1 small Bunsen burner .35 

1 alcohol lamp .50 

2 pole changers 4. 50 

1 Bunsen burner .35 

2 pounds mercury 1. 80 

1 Bunsen burner .35 

6 glass-stoppered bottles, white, 100 cubic centimeters .60 

1 glass-stoppered bottle, colored, 100 cubic centirneters .10 

1 glass-stoppered bottle, white, 250 cubic centimeters .16 

4 beakers, 100 cubic centimeters .44 

2 beakers, 200 cubic centimeters _ .36 

1 beaker, 250 cubic centimeters ~^. 20 

1 glass, half pint " ~ ^f. 05 



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1 small balance $5. 00 

1 set weights, 10 grams to 1 centigram 5. 00 

1 dry battery .20 

1 set weights, 2 kilos to 1 gram 1. 45 

1 scales to weigh 5 kilos 5. 50 

1 aspirator bottle, 5 liters, with tabulator 1. 30 

1 beaker, 250 cubic centimeters .20 

I foot be] lows 5.C0 

12 small Y tubes .48 

23 large tubes (Y tubes) 1. 04 

10 small T tubes .40 

8 small thistle tubes .80 

21 50 cubic centimeter pipettes 3. 15 

16 4 cubic centimeter pipettes 1. 12 

II 2 cubic centimeter pipettes .66 

51 1 cubic centimeter pipettes 2. 55 

1. accurate 50 cubic centimeter pipette .40 

1 accurate 25 cubic centimeter pipette .30 

1 accurate 5 cubic centimeter pipette .18 

1 accurate 1 cubic centimeter pipette .10 

1 thermometer, 0-120° C .50 

1 incubator thermometer 1.60 

6 thermometers, 0-110° C 6.60 

1 specific gravity 1,000-1,400 .75 

1 package filter paper, 18.5 centimeters; 1| packages filter paper, 15 centi- 
meters; 1 package filter paper, 12.5 centimeters; 1 package filter paper, 9 

centimeters; 1 package filter paper 5.5 centimeters 2. 05 

3 vials litmus paper .21 

1 box labels .05 

2 3-lens simple magnifiers 1. 00 

2 therm.ometers, 0-110 C 1. 20 

-1 battery tester 6. 00 

1 wire-cutting pliers .63 

1 cork knife .15 

1 scissors .50 

2 files .25 

1 brush .17 

1 set cork borers (6) .60 

1 cork press .35 

2 gross corks .• .75 

1 beaker brush .15 

2 test-tube brushes .12 

2 metal spatulas .60 

1 bone spatula .10 

2 porcelain spoon spatulas .40 

7 evaporating dishes, 7 centimeters .16 

1 watch glass, 16 centimeters .24 

1 watch glass, 11 centimeters .12 

8 watch glasses, 7 centimeters .36 

48 watch glasses, 5 centimeters .96 

11 watch glasses, 6 centimeters , .50 

26 watch glasses, 3.5 centimeters .52 

35 watch glasses, 4.2 centimeters .70 

2 boxes microscope slides (about 75) .60 

2 boxes cover glasses .90 

3.4 rubber tubing 10. 00 

2 glass jars, 22 by 11 centimeters .70 

3 soft boards, 10 by h inches 1. 20 

2 wall charts \ .". 5. 00 

2 battery jars -60 

1 chemical case 5. 00 

1 kilo sodium chloride .60 

1 kilo boracic acid .40 

1 kilo kaolin .20 

1 kilo ammonia chloride -24 

1 pound acetic acid .25 

1 bottle machine oil -25 



106 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

8 ounces carbolic acid |0. 15 

500 grams carbolic acid .70 

500 grams alum, calcined .25 

2 bags salt .10 

100 grams mercuric chloride .50 

100 grams Rochelle salts .50 

250 grams potassium chlorate .25 

Pumice stone .35 

I flag pole and flag 10. 00 

3 kilos odd glass 3. 00 

II combustion tubing 2. 20 

Copper and brass gauze 2. 10 

1 specimen jar .25 

1 flat-bottom flask, 50 cubic centimeters . LL 

1 jar with lip for specific gravity .50 

1 Erlenmeyer flask, 500 cubic centimeters .20 

28 glass-stoppered bottles, 100 cubic centimeters 2. 80 

4 glass-stoppered bottles, 100 cubic centimeters .40 

51 glass-stoppered bottles, 30 cubic centimeters 3. 57 

68 glass-stoppered bottles, 15 cubic centimeters 4. 08 

24 glass-stoppered bottles, 200 cubic centimeters 3. 13 

4 battery zincs 2. 00 

Kymograph parts 5. 00 

1 wooden stand .90 

10 capillary electrometers 30. 00 

1 old circular scheme 5. 50 

11 rheodords, old style 17. 60 

I box nonpolarizable electrodes 5. 00 

3 head holders 3. 00 

8 large corks .25 

8 brass rods .25 

5 crystal dishes, 15 centimeters 1.75, 

II crystal dishes, 10 centimeters 2. 20 

11 crystal dishes, 8 centimeters 1. 54 

3 apparatus cores 60. 00 

1 table with drawers 30. 00 

6 boards, hard and soft wood 5. 00 

1 thermostat with regulator (old) 35. 00 

1 stool 1. 00 

1 fire extinguisher 5. 00 

1 thermostat, divided doors, etc 72. 00 

1 heavy laboratory table •. 10. 00 

1 light laboratory table 4. 00 

1 demonstration tray 2. 00 

1 hand centrifuge with fixings 15. 00 

7 circulation schemes 38. 50 

1 papier-mach6 spinal cord 5. 00 

1 papier-mache ear 5. 00 

1 bell jar with tubulature, 22 by 40 centimeters 3. 00 

12 test tube holders .78 

8 tripods 2. 00 

3 Bunsen burners 1. 05 

8 Daroll clamps 1. 60 

98 test tubes 1. 35 

1 test tube rack for 12 test tubes. .60 

i bottle mucilage .40 

5 eye boxes 20. 00 

5 lanterns 25. 00 

1 set Milton Bradley pseudoptics 5. 00 

1 Zaye Kuhne artificial eye 25. 00 

1 set keenness of vision instruments .' 10. 00 

1 set (19) bottles with odoriferous solutions 3. 80 

4 bottles, glass stoppered, 30 cubic centimeters .28 

20 bottles, glass stoppered, 100 cubic centimeters 2. 00 

4 bottles, glass stoppered, 200 cubic centimeters .52 

5 beakers, 75 cubic centimeters .50 

1 set colored 1. 60 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 107 

1 kymograph _ $20. 00 

4 crystal dishes, 8 centimeters .56 

1 crystal dish, 10 centimeters .20 

1 tracheal canula .70 

1 cat orx 1. 00 

1 mercury mannometer 2. 50 

1 standard and 2 clamps 1. 15 

2 pump models , 1. 50 

23 small lamborns 23. 00 

23 head levers 17. 25 

12 nickeled brass rods 2. 40 

1 tuning fork 1. 00 

3 head clamps 2. 25 

2 zootrope pictures of intestinal membranes 2. 00 

1 stool 1. 00 

14 record holders 3. 50 

5 slop bowls 1. 25 

1 shellacking table 5. 00 

1 battery jar .25 

2 waste-paper baskets 1. 00 

6 chairs 7. 50 

21 stoves 21. 00 

1 glass-stoppered bottle, 100 cubic centimeters .10 

20 kymographs. 400. 00 

1 ice chamber ' .65 

1 COo chamber ^ .35 

1 arbeit saunnler 3. 00 

1 micrometer eyepiece 5. 00 

1 microscope capillary electrometer 3. 00 

1 interrupter 4. 00 

8 volume tubes 3. 60 

6 sets large electrodes 1. 50 

12 new holders 4. 80 

1 Bunsen burner with 2 feet tubing .35 

4 desks of 4 places each 120. 00 

22 platinum electrodes 22. 00 

3 current detectors 4. 50 

1 blackboard 2. 00 

4 eyographs C. 00 

6 tuning forks G. 00 

19 electro-magnetic signals 19. 00 

21 femur clamps 21. 00 

19 muscle levers 21. 85 

21 inductoriums 147. 00 

22 simple keys 22. 00 

4 interrupters 6. 00 

3 mercury keys 3. 00 

18 boards 10. 80 

13 wooden stands 11. 70 

1 circulation scheme 5. 50 

1 pole changer 2. 25 

1 rheocord 2. 50 

19 glass plates 1. 90 

1 bottle with 2 dozen aluminum styles 1. 30 

1 bottle with 100 10-gram weights 1. 10 

1 pan with 100 10 gram weights 1. 10 

1 bottle with 30 double hooks .55 

1 bottle with 30 leg clips .70 

9 weight pans 2. 25 

1 blackboard and bulletin board 2. 00 

1 apparatus case 20. 00 

1 cabinet 3. 00 

1 standard .75 

3 double clamps .60 

1 simple key 1. 00 

1 induction 7. 00 

1 drv cell .20 



108 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 tripod fO. 25 

1 wooden stand .90 

1 beaker, 1,000 cubic centimeters .50 

1 flat-bottom flask, 500 cubic centimeters .28 

1 microscope, 3x7 objectives . 33. 50 

1 kymograph ' 20. 00 

9 glass-stoppered bottles, 15 cubic centimeters .54 

2 glass-stoppered bottles, 30 cubic centimeters .14 

3 glass-stoppered bottles, 100 cubic centimeters .30 

2 glass-stoppered bottles, 200 cubic centimeters 1. 26 

1 thermometer, 0-110° 1. 10 

1 funnel, 5 centimeters .09 

1 beaker, 50 cubic centimeters .10 

1 crystal dish, 8 centimeters .14 

1 crystallizing dish, 10 centimeters .20 

1 evaporating dish, 7 centimeters .16 

10 watch glasses, 5 centimeters .20 

1 platinum electrode 1. 00 

1 muscle lever 1. 15 

1 femur clamp 1. 00 

1 head lever .75 

1 pippette, 1 cubic centimeter .05 

1 test-tube holder ' .07 

10 10-gram weights : .10 

1 glass plate .10 

1 blackboard 10. 00 

1 curtain for lantern 5. 00 

2 stools 2. 00 

64 chairs 64. 00 

1 Laclare desk 10. 00 

1 chair 1. 50 

1 chair cabinet 25. 00 

1 chair 1. 50 

144 12-centimeter test tubes 1. 95 

3 crystallizing dishes, 15 centimeters 1. 05 

22 crystallizing dishes, 10 centimeters 4. 40 

54 crystallizing dishes, 8 centimeters 7. 56 

30 crystallizing dishes, 5 centimeters 3. 60 

1 funnel, 13 centimeters .20 

1 funnel, 10 centimeters : .16 

3 funnels, 9 centimeters .45 

8 funnels, 6 centimeters .80 

14 funnels, 5 centimeters 1. 26 

6 funnels, 3 centimeters .48 

200 watch glasses, 3 centimeters 4. 00 

50 watch glasses, 5 centimeters 1. 00 

46 watch glasses, 6 centimeters, with facet 2. 07 

1 watch glass, 7 centimeters .05 

7 watch glasses, 10 centimeters .46 

4 watch glasses, 16 centimeters .96 

3 sediment glasses >. : .38 

3 sediment glasses .42 

3 watch glasses, 18 centimeters .78 

2 watch glasses, 20 centimeters .56 

1 wash bottle, 250 cubic centimeters, ground stopper 2. 50 

2 burette clamps 1. 50 

22 test-tube clamps 1. 43 

1 beaker brush .15 

9 test-tube brushes .54 

11 pipestem triangles .99 

3 porcelain boats .40 

9 porcelain crucibles .90 

2 separating funnels, short stems (100 cubic centimeters) 2. 40 

1 evaporating dish, 30 centimeters 1. 75 

1 evaporating dish, 22 centimeters 1. 25 

2 evaporating dishes, 18 centimeters '. 2. 50 

3 evaporating dishes, 16 centimeters ; 1. 95 



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5 evaporating dishes, 13 centimeters |1. 50 

1 evaporating dish, 11 centimeters .25 

6 evaporating dishes, 8 centimeters 1. 08 

1 bell jar with tubulature 2. 85 

1 crockery ware dipping basket 1. 00 

1 3-gallon crock .50 

1 color mixer with color wheels 10. 00 

62 glass-stoppered bottles, 30 cubic centimeters 4. 34 

5 glass-stoppered bottles, wide mouth, 30 cubic centimeters .35 

4 glass-stoppered bottles, wide mouth, 100 cubic centimeters .40 

2 glass-stoppered bottles, with wide mouth .26 

20 bottles, 200 cubic centimeters 2. 60 

139 glass-stoppered bottles, 15 cubic centimeters 8. 34 

1 separating funnel, long stem, 50 cubic centimeters 1. 00 

1 thistle tube '.'. .06 

2 calcium chloride tubes .50 

3 drying tubes .75 

4 weighing bottles, 8 by 4 centimeters; 3 weighing bottles, 6 by 3 centi- 

meters 1. 25 

10 Erlenmeyer flasks, > 600 cubic centimeters 2. 00 

2 Erlenmeyer flasks, 300 cubic centimeters .32 

1 Erlenmeyer flask, 200 cubic centimeters .12 

2 Erlenmeyer flasks, 100 cubic centimeters .18 

3 Erlenmeyer flasks, 50 cubic centimeters .24 

1 heavy filtering flask .80 

1 accurate flask, 500 cubic centimeters .95 

2 accurate flasks, 200 cubic centimeters .80 

1 round-bottom flask, 200 cubic centimeters .12 

7 K glass tubing and glass rod •. 7. 00 

2 wooden standards 2. 00 

24 tin boxes, 10 centimeters .57 

35 tin boxes, 6 centimeters .50 

1 specimen jar, 12 centimeters .35 

3 specimen jars, 10 centimeters .75 

1 aspirator bottle, 2 gallons 1. 30 

Rubber stoppers 3. 00 

1 box color wheels with color mixer 

15 bottles ether, 250 grams each 6. 00 

24 pipette nipples .36 

12 small thistle tubes .60 

2 clamps, 15 centimeters 1. 00 

12 evaporating dishes, 6.5 centimeters 1. 80 

1 milk tester .60 

1 spinthariscope 1. 25 

Platinum wire 2. 00 

12 cork boards, 10 by 30 centimeters 1. 80 

1 specific-gravity instrument, 800-900 .75 

1 specific-gravity instrument, 700-800 .75 

1 specific-gravity instrument, 900-1,000 .75 

5 thermometers, 0-250° C 2. 00 

3 bottles chloroform, | pound each 1. 25 

5 pounds mercury 4. 50 

1 dynamometer oral 2. 85 

1 rheocord 2. 50 

5 vials litmus paper .35 

1 vial lacmoid paper .07 

1 straight graduate, 1,000 cubic centimeters 2. 00 

1 straight graduate, 500 cubic centimeters 1. 05 

1 straight graduate, 250 cubic centimeters .85 

1 accurate flask, 1,000 cubic centimeters 1. 00 

1 bell jar, 11 by 25 1. 00 

1 bell jar, 13 by 30 1. 25 

1 Sahli holiometer 3. 75 

1 contact clock 8. 00 

1 metronome, W contact 10. 00 

1 package B. & A. filters, 125 centimeters .75 

4 boxes labels .20 



110 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

5 boxes labels $0. 25 

1 percussion hammer .30 

1 stethoscope 1. 00 

2 round-bottom flasks, 1,000 cubic centimeters .40 

2 Leibig condensers, 80 centimeters 1. 20 

2 Leibig condensers, 60 centimeters 1. 00 

2 specific-gravity jars, 30 centimeters, eng .50 

2 specific-gravity jars, 25 centimeters .50 

1 platinum electrode 1. 00 

1 rubber stamp and pad .75 

1 stand semicircular bar .75 

Iron wire 1. 00 

13 standards 9. 75 

1 mortar and pestle, 20 centimeters 1. 35 

1 mortar and pestle, 11 centimeters .45 

1 agate mortar and pestle, 4 centimeters ; 1.30 

6 pipettes, 1 cubic centimeter .30 

18 pipettes, 2 cubic centimeters 1. 08 

2 E. & A. filter pumps 2. 00 

1 Richards filter pump 1. 20 

10 iron gauze .50 

5 glass plates .50 

16 cardboard boxes, 5 by 9 centimeters .48 

4 aneurism needles 1. 65 

1 scissors .50 

2 tracheal cannulse 1. 40 

8 metal arterial cannulse 1. 20 

1 bellows 1. 00 

1 animal board and head holder-. 5. 50 

1 anaesthetic bottle .25 

1 calcium chloride .20 

1 pinchcock • .10 

10 frog manometers 10. 00 

1 safety burner 1. 25 

1 membrane manometer 5. 00 

4 respiration schemes . 10. 00 

1 Cessabane shears 2. 50 

3 needles .75 

6 packages screws (| , i, f , I, |, and 1 inch) 2. 00 

3 packages brads (f , 1, and IJ inches) .75 

8 sheets emery cloth .80 

8 sheets sandpaper .40 

1 bench vise , 2. 40 

1 claw hammer .38 

1 straight hammer .47 

2 screw-drivers .42 

1 pendulum pliers .74 

1 end-cutting pliers .54 

1 micrometer gauge 4. 20 

1 straight-cut saw 1. 25 

1 wrench .52 

1 plane, hand .90 

Lead 1. 10 

Wire .26 

Rasp .16 

11 moist chamber 27. 50 

1 simplex spirometer 5. 20 

2 Smellea wall charts .20 

I sterilizer 15. 00 

II beakers, 75 cubic centimeters 1. 10 

5 beakers, 700 cubic centimeters 1. 25 

5 beakers, 500 cubic centimeters 1. 10 

5 beakers, 300 cubic centimeters .90 

3 beakers, 250 cubic centimeters .45 

6 beakers, 200 cubic centimeters .90 

5 beakers, 150 cubic centimeters .60 

8 beakers, 100 cubic centimeters .96 



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1 beaker, 75 cubic centimeters |0. 10 

1 beaker, 50 cubic centimeters .08 

1 beaker, 1,000 cubic centimeters .40 

1 beaker, 1,200 cubic centimeters .40 

1 nest long form beakers (5) 1. 00 

1.7 kilos rubber stoppers 6. 50 

1 straight graduate, 200 cubic centimeters .70 

1 straight graduate, 100 cubic centimeters .60 

1 straight graduate, 50 cubic centimeters .40 

1 straight graduate, 25 cubic centimeters .35 

2 burettes, 3-way 8. 40 

2 burettes, simple 3. 60 

1 thermostat regulator 1. 05 

180 10-gram weights 1. 80 

5 gas chambers 1. 75 

100 double hooks 1. 50 

1,000 sheets kymograph paper 5. 00 

12 paper protractors .30 

2 meter rules .40 

3 pneumographs 7. 80 

6 signal magnets 6. 00 

6 large tambours 9. 00 

6 tuning forks 6. 00 

6 muscle warmers 3. 90 

3 eyographs 4. 50 

2 wooden funnel stands 2. 50 

37 iron stands, semicircular bars 27. 75 

43 double clamps, small 8. 60 

5 clamps, 5 centimeters 2. 50 

8 burette clamps 6. 00 

15 clamps, double, large , 5. 00 

4 Bunsen burners 1. 40 

1 laboratory apron 1. 40 

3 kilos combustion tubing, 13 millimeters 4. 20 

2 kilos Kavalier glass tubing, 4 millimeters; 2 kilos Kavalier glass tubing, 
5 millimeters; 1 kilo Kavalier glass tubing, 6 millimeters; 1 kilo Kavalier 

glass tubing, 10 millimeters 8. 40 

1 kilo glass blowing tubing, 20 millimeters; 1.5 kilos glass blowing tubing, 

30 millimeters '. 2. 25 

1 kilo glass rod, 4 millimeters; 1 kilo glass rod, 5 millimeters; 1 kilo glass 

rod, 6 millimeters 2. 40 

26 distillation flasks, 100 cubic centimeters 6. 50 

20 distillation flasks, 250 cubic centimeters 6. 00 

3 distillation flasks, 500 cubic centimeters 1. 20 

2 distillation flasks, 1,000 cubic centimeters 1. 10 

2 distillation flasks, 100 cubic centimeters; 3 distillation flasks, 250 cubic 
centimeters; 2 distillation flasks, 500 cubic centimeters; 3 Kavalier 

round bottom flasks, 250 cubic centimeters .42 

8 Kavalier round bottom flasks, 500 cubic centimeters 1. 60 

7 Kavalier round bottom flasks, 1,000 cubic centimeters 2. 10 

3 Kavalier round bottom flasks, 2,000 cubic centimeters 1. 50 

3 Kavalier round bottom flasks, 4,000 cubic centimeters 3. 00 

1 Buechner funnel, 10 centimeters 1. 25 

1 Buechner funnel, 25 centimeters 2. 50 

1 Scherbler dessicator, 24 centimeters 4. 00 

1 Fruhling Schutz dessicator 6. 50 

1 Plantamour funnel 2. 00 

1 potassium hydroxide 1. 00 

1 Schiff nitrometer 5. 00 

1 separating funnel, 2,000 cubic centimeters 3. 00 

4 each of red and blue litmus paper in vials .56 

1 Sartorius balance, 200 grams to 0.1 milligram; 1 set gilded weights, 200 

grams to 0.1 milligram 46. 00 

2 parchment paper .70 

1 bottle emery. No. 70 .20 

1 bottle emery, No. 100 .20 

1 bottle emery. No. 140 .20 



112 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 bottle emery powder $0. 20 

1 crystallizing dish .35 

2 kilos acetone 2. 00 

3 kilos acetone 2.65 

250 grams toluene .28 

1 kilo chloroform 1. 00 

J kilo acetic anhydride 1. 00 

2 kilos lactic acid 3. 10 

100 grams propionic acid 1. 20 

100 grams pyndine 1.75 

500 grams phosphorous thichloride 1. 20 

500 grams stannic chloride 1. 10 

500 g'-ams acetyl chloride 2. 20 

500 grams benzoyl chloride 1. 10 

Red phosphorus 1. 15 

1 water bath with tripod 3. 25 

3 porcelain dishes, No. 7 1. 00 

2 porcelain dishes, No. 8 1. 24 

1 porcelain dish. No. 11 1. 30 

1 2-gallon condenser Zn . , with tin tube 3.65 

2 filter pumps, No. 1, E. & A 1.80 

1 filter pump, No. 2 1. 10 

5 pounds sea sand .20 

1 iron stand .65 

3 kilos glacial acetic acid 1. 60 

J pound sodium .50 

J kilo amnion, nitrate .33 

500 grams calcium chloride, dry gran .30 

500 grams sine dust .25 

2 kilos zinc, granulated 1. 30 

3 kilos oxalic acid .65 

2 8-ounce Drexel gas wash bottles .67 

2 500 cubic centimeter Erlenmeyer filtering flasks .25 

1 50 cubic centimer long-stem separatory funnel .30 

1 500 cubic centimeter short-stem separatory funnel 1. 80 

1 100 cubic centimeter Kipp generator 1. 35 

500 grams molybdic acid 1. 30 

100 grams napthol .22 

100 grams potass, ferrocyanide .15 

100 grams potass, ferricyanide .15 

500 grams potass, and sod. tartrate .29 

500 grams barium chloride .22 

500 grams barium hydroxide .30 

3 kilos sodium hydroxide fused .45 

5 kilos benzoic acid from toluene 6. 75 

500 grams urea 1. 95 

1 kilo citric acid 1. 40 

2 kilos glycerin .95 

2 kilos boneblack .65 

10 grams phloroglucin 1. 10 

1.5 kilos salicylic acid 1. 50 

3 kilos tartaric acid 2. 85 

1.5 kilos ammon. carbonate .58 

Antimony trichloride .80 

500 grams barium carbonate .15 

500 grams cadium chloride 2. 10 

Calcium chloride, fused gran .60 

500 grams ferrous sulphate .15 

2 kilos ferrous sulphate .20 

LOANED TO THE DEPARTMENT OP PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. 

500 grams sodium methate, dry .15 

Potas. bromide .50 

1 kilo potas. carbonate ,30 

1 kilo potassium hydroxide .68 

500 grams potassium nitrate .16 



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300 grams potassium permanganate |0. 25 

500 grams cupric chloride L 10 

2 kilos potassium sulphate .57 

500 grams cupric oxide, powder 1. 05 

2 kilos cupric oxide, granular 3. 75 

500 grams cupric sulphate .30 

100 grams lithium chloride .35 

100 grams magnesium ribbon 1. 00 

500 grams magnesium chloride .15 

500 grams manganese chloride .27 

3 kilos sodium carbonate, dry .• 1. 00 

500 grams sodium chloride .15 

1.5 kilos sodium hydroxide 2. 25 

500 grams sodium sulphate, fused .45 

200 grams phosphorous oxide .50 

100 grams bismuth trichloride 1. 30 

100 grams tungstic acid .90 

500 grams zinc chloride .33 

500 grams stannous chloride .60 

1 iron pail .90 

1 milk can (fitted) 1. 50 

1 platinum crucible (perforated) 30. 00 

1 platinum crucible (solid) 22. 50 

1 Buechner funnel, 7-centimeter .45 

Total , 3, 186. 88 

Bacteriological and pathological laboratory. 

Bacteriological and pathological laboratory, 50 by 48 feet; accessory laboratory, 
9 by 11 feet. 
Students enrolled for work in this laboratory this year: 

Medical students 57 

Special students 4 

Veterinary students 27 

Dental students 6 

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Number of students that can be accommodated 100 

Inventory, 

Laboratory tables for 73 students, fully equipped with gas, electric lights, 
burners, water fixtures, plumbing, and drawers. 

1 auto clave $60. 00 

1 alcoholometer 1 . 50 

5 pieces asbestos board, 1 sheet 3. 00 

1 yard asbestos cloth 2. 00 

4^ pounds asbestos, shredded 6.75 

511 bottles, Boston prescription 40. 88 

1 albumenometer, Esbach 1. 00 

91 blocks, vulcanized 3. 50 

14 beakers, Jena 1. 40 

436 bottles, glass stopper 21. 80 

100 bottles, stain, small 6. 00 

226 bottles, stain 18. 08 

134 bottles, stain, German 4. 02 

105 bottles, balsam 12. 60 

29 bottles, cedar oil 3. 48 

532 bottles, specimen, 100 cubic centimeters 53. 20 

13 bottles, glass stopper, 8 L 13. 00 

36 brushes, bottle, i2-inch 7. 20 

36 brushes, bottle, 15-iuch 7. 56 

33 brushes, bottle, 20-inch 8. 25 

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114 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

2 burettes, stands, porcelain base |2. 00 

1 blowpipe, Fletcher's 5. 00 

2 burettes, single cock, 25 cubic centimeters .30 

2 burettes, two-way, 50 cubic centimeters 3. 00 

2 burettes, two-way, 100 cubic centimeters 4. 00 

2 bell jars, with tabulature 4. 00 

8 baths, copper, 8-inch 16. 00 

1 bath, copper, 5-inch 1. 50 

1 paraffin bath 15. 00 

1 bottle, Woolfe .50 

1 bottle, hydrogen 3. 00 

1 bottle, wash glass .25 

6 boxes embedding .60 

4 burners, Bunsen, 3-tube 4. 00 

1 burner, Bunsen, 3-tube, large 1. 50 

1 burner, Bunsen, large .75 

2 burners, Fletcher, solid flame 4. 00 

2 burners, Kock, safety 12. GO 

80 burners, Bunsen, single 20. 00 

I bottle, specific gra^dty and weight 2. 50 

II bulbs, larg? 

24 bulbs, small 

4 cylinders, graduated, 1,000 4. 00 

3 cylinders, graduated, 500 2. 25 

4 cylinders, graduated, 250 2. 40 

12 cylinders, graduated, 100 4. 20 

11 cylinders, graduated, 50 3. 30 

8 cylinders, graduated, 25 1. 60 

10 cylinders, i^raduated, 10 1. 50 

5 cylinders, graduated, 5 .60 

1 cylinder, graduated, not good 

Corks, assorted, 0-22 

Corks, rubber, 3 

Corks, rubber, 6 

Corks, rubber, 8 

Corks, rubber, 9 ^ 

Corks, rubber, 12 

1 cork borer 

1 cork borer knife 

1 corkscrew 

4 crucibles 

8^-ounce cover glasses, round 

14-ounce cover glasses, square, | by f 

2-ounce cover glasses, | by 1\ 

1-ounce cover glasses, 35 by 50 

6 clamps, tubing, medium 

6 clamps, tubing, small 

29 colony counting plates 

1 condenser, Leibig 

1 condenser, alcohol 

1 centrifuge, hospital size, 110-volt, with 4 and 8 tube head, 8 aluminum 

tubes, 12 plain tubes, 6 graduated tubes, rheostat. 

1 can or boiler 

1 cage, special metal ., 

1 cage, wooden 

1 cage, mouse 

5 chambers, drying 

1 centrifuge, small electric 

494 dishes, staining 

22 dishes, staining with g. g. top 

Dishes, evaporating 

1 dish, glass, 10 inches 

1 dish, glass, 8 inches 

6 dishes, glass, 6 inches 

264 dishes, Petri 

1 dark ground illuminator, Leitz 

2 diamanture powder 



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144 funnels, 2 inches $7. 20 

5 funnels, 3 inches ■ .15 

4 funnels, 4 inches .24 

1 funnel, 5 inches .10 

13 funnels, 6 inches 2. 60 

5 funnels, ^ gallon, ribbed 6. 25 

2 funnels, Buchner 2. 50 

3 funnels, agate .75 

2 funnel racks, wire .30 

15 flasks, toxin, 10 inches 15. 00 

35 flasks, Erlenmeyer, 150 cubic centimeters 5. 25 

99 flasks, Erlenmeyer, 300 cubic centimeters 19. 80 

21 flasks, Erlenmeyer, 500 cubic centimeters 4. 62 

Flasks, Erlenmeyer, 250 cubic centimeters 

88 flasks, Erlenmeyer, 1,000 cubic centimeters 35. 20 

16 flasks, Erlenmeyer, 1,500 cubic centimeters 9. 60 

Flasks, Erlenmeyer, 100 cubic centimeters 

50 flasks, Florentine, 250 cubic centimeters 10. 00 

47 flasks, Florentine, 500 cubic centimeters 11. 75 

22 flasks, Florentine, 1,500 cubic centimeters 13. 20 

6 flasks, filtering Erlenmeyer 3. 60 

8 flasks, filtering round 4. 80 

18 filters, Berkefeld 27. 00 

9 filters, Pukal 13. 50 

1 filtering tube 1. 00 

28 frog plate glass 2. 80 

56 frog plate cork G. 60 

58 forceps, dissecting 11. 60 

9 forceps, long, for specimens 4. 50 

24 forceps, comet 12. 00 

129 forceps, Stewart's 19. 35 

3 files, saw .30 

183 fermentation tubes, on foot 45.75 

Graduates, 150 cubic centimeters 

1 graduate, 60 cubic centimeters .20 

5 graduates, 120 cubic centimeters 1. 25 

6 graduates, clinical, 250 cubic centimeters 1. 80 

2 gas stoves 4. 00 

1 glass plate for microtome 1. 00 

2 hsemoglobino meter , Dare 40. 00 

1 hsemoglobinometer, Fleische 15. 00 

2 hsemocytometer, Zirm 24. 00 

3 incubators 250. 00 

Instruments, surgical and post mortem: 1 brain knife, 1 bone forceps, 1 

bone-cutting forceps, 1 bone chisel, 1 centeretonie, 1 hammer, 2 knives, 

1 scissors, 1 trocar and cannla 20. 00 

84 jars, specimen, 1 quart 12. 60 

46 jars, specimen, 1 pint 4. 60 

6 jars, stone, with lid, 2 gallons 6. 00 

1 jar, stone lid, 3 gallons 1. 10 

1 jar, stone, with lid, 5 gallons 1. 25 

24 jars, specimen, 20 by 10 by 5 24. 00 

24 i'ars, specimen, 20 by 15 by 8 28.80 

6 jars, precipitating 6. 00 

2 jars, Anngerobe Novy 8. 00 

1 knife, microtonie, B. & L 5. 00 

2 knives, microtonie 10. 00 

2 knives for Bardeens freezing Mic 2. 00 

13 lantern slides 6. 50 

3 lenses, hand .75 

1 level 1. 00 

59 lenses, microscope, Leitz -^ oil immersion 1, 500. 00 

2 lenses, microscope, Spencer -^ oil immersion 50. 00 

14 lenses, microscope, B. & L. ^la oil immersion 325. 00 

70 lenses, microscope, B. & L. f oil immersion 505. 00 

Lenses, microscope, B. & L. ^ oil immersion 595. 00 

1 ladle, tin .10 



116 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

1 measure, agate, ^ gallon |0. 25 

1 measure, agate, 1 quart .15 

1 measure, agate, 1 pint .10 

1 mortar, glass .50 

2 mortars, porcelain .80 

1 microtome, Schanze 50. 00 

1 microtome, Minot 60. 00 

1 microtome, freezing 20. 00 

1 mouse holder 1. 00 

1 microscope case for specimens 35. 00 

48 microscope stands, black base, eyepiece, triple nose piece. Abbe con- 
denser, Leitz 1, 500. 00 

14 microscope stands, black base, 1 eye piece, double nose piece, Abbe 

condenser, B. & L 420.00 

2 microscope stands, 2 eyepieces, triple nose piece. Abbe condenser, Spencer 60. 00 

1 micrometer, metric 1. 50 

14 needles, teasing 2. 10 

16 needles, teasing, with hook 2. 40 

90 needles, inoculating, platinum 13. 50 

100 needles, glass 5. 00 

5 platino-iridium wire 12. 50 

2 platinum 20. 00 

122 pipettes, bulbous, 1 cubic centimeter 6. 10 

55 pipettes, bulbous, 2 cubic centimeters 5. 50 

28 pipettes, bulbous, 5 cubic centimeters 2. 80 

21 pipettes, bulbous, 10 cubic centimeters 3. 15 

1 pipette, bulbous, 20 cubic centimeters .25 

1 pot, iron .50 

15 pinch cocks, Mohr, large and medium .75 

1 refrigerator 35. 00 

4 sterilizers, Arnold, copper 60. 00 

1 sterilizer, Arnold , tin (worn out) 5. 00 

1 still, automatic _ 20. 00 

30 straining iars, Coplin 6. 00 

1 sterilizer, dry wall 40. 00 

10 scapels, metal handles 2. 50 

48 scapels, wooden handles 9. 60 

6 scissors, smiall 2. 40 

2 shears .50 

159 section lifters 23. 35 

12^ gross slides, 3 by 1 12. 50 

2 syringes, Straus-Cohn 10 6. 00 

2 syringes, Straus-Cohn 5 4. 00 

60 slides, 3 by 1 cell. 

11 skimmers, agate 2. 75 

1 spoon, wooden .10 

1 spoon, tin .10 

4 supports, iron, medium 3. 00 

1 support, iron, large 1. 00 

173 slide boxes 17. 30 

1 screw-driver .10 

5 saucepans, agate, 2 gallons 5. 00 

2 saucepans, agate, 3 quarts 2. 50 

2 scales 5. 00 

1 syringe, hypodermic 1. 00 

26 stools. . . ." 32. 50 

5 spatulas 1. 25 

113 tumblers, glass 5. 65 

3 tripod rings, 4-inch 4. 00 

1 tripod ring, 5-inch. 

6 tripod rings, 7-inch. 
3 tripod rings, 10-inch. 

7 thermometers, clinical 3. 50 

21 thermometers, chemical 7. 35 

2 thermometers, incubator 3. 00 

94 tin cultures. 

74 test-tube supports, wood 18. 50 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 117 

1 thermoregulator, Rorux, 10-inch |5. 00 

1 thermoregulator, 18-inch 6. 00 

Tubing, glass, ^-inch, J-inch, -^-inch, ^-inch; rubber, ^-inch; rubber, chem- 
ical, -rs-inch; rubber, chemical, |-inch 15. 00 

2 thermoregulators, Bolke 20. 00 

1 histolog 

4,773 test tubes, 15 by 15 47. 73 

576 test tubes, 15 by 28 5. 76 

869 test tubes, 6 m. by 48 m 8. 69 

1 urinometer 1. 00 

I urinometer, Doremus Hind 1. 00 

12 watch glasses, 2 .24 

24 watch glasses, 3 .48 

48 watch glasses, 4 .96 

24 watch glasses, 6 .48 

27 wire baskets, round 6. 75 

12 wire baskets, square 3. 00 

II wire baskets, small 2. 75 

1 weights, set 5. 00 



7, 101. 42 

To this should be added collection of museum specimens which are used in con- 
nection with the teaching in pathology — 315 specimen jars with contained specimens. 
These jars vary in size from 1 quart to several gallons. They are all provided with 
glass stoppers and contain specimens in alcohol or other fluid. The cost of such a 
collection is great but difficult to. accurately estimate. 

The collection of bacteria, pathological material, and material for use in the course 
in clinical microscopy is very extensive and complete, and, with a few exceptions, 
is sufficient in quantity to last for many years. It has been collected principally in 
Washington, but by means of exchanges with other colleges material from practically 
all parts of the world has been accumulated. It is impossible to place any money 
value upon this teaching collection, but it represents careful work by experienced 
men since the beginning of instruction in medicine in this university. 



Exhibit H. 
college of dentistry. 

Dr. Charles W. Needham, 

Dear Sir: In accordance with yom* request I have to report as follows regai'ding 
the dental department: 

Square feet. 

The floor space of the dental infirmary 1, 560 

The floor space of the prosthetic laboratory 558 

The floor space of the technic laboratory 580 

Lecture rooms are the same used by the medical department in the day and are 
used by this department in the evenings. These halls will accommodate five times 
the number of dental students attending at present session. 

The dental infirmary has sufficient equipment to accommodate four times the pres- 
ent attendance; each laboratory will likewise give the same accommodation. 

Infirmary equipment: 

6 Columbia chairs |600 

4 Harvard B chairs 400 

5 Wilkerson chairs 225 

36 lockers 125 

30 laboratory benches 100 

24 lathes 30 

5 lathes 25 

2 electric motors 75 

10 vulcanizers 130 

12 operating tables 30 

1 nitrous oxide outfit 20 

1,760 



118 GEORGE AVASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Students enrolled: First year, 18 and 14 in attendance; second year, 5 and 5 in 
attendance; thii-d year, 6 and 6 in attendance. One special student doing review 
work. 

In reference to the reports of the anatomical, physiological, chemical, histological, 
bacteriological, and pathological laboratories, I respectfully refer you to the reports 
of these laboratories reported by the medical department. 

Yours, respectfully, J. Roland Walton. 



Exhibit I. 

LIBRARY. 



May 10, 1910. 
Charles W. Needham, LL.D., President 

The George Washington University, Washington, D. C. 

Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to submit herewith my report on the 
library of The George Washington University: 

The university library comprises the medical library, the law library, and the 
library of the department of arts and sciences. 

The medical library contains 2,561 volumes of first copy books and about 1,500 
duplicates. It is housed in the large southeast room on the upper floor of the medical 
building, is well lighted, and provided with tables and chairs. 

The law library contains 5,220 volumes and occupies the large main room on the 
upper floor of the law building. It is well supplied -with tables and chairs. Conversa- 
tion and discussion are restricted to the adjoining lobby room. 

The library of the department of arts and sciences contains 34,584 volumes and 
pamphlets — exclusive of the old books on religion and theology, numbering 1,500, 
and duplicates, numbering 1,200, or counting all 37,284 volumes. This library com- 
prises the main or central library, the Mount Vernon alcove of the college of the 
political sciences, and the divisional collections of the college of engineering and 
mechanic arts, the teachers' college, and the di\T.sion of architecture. 

The main library is housed in the university building, occupying five rooms: The 
stack; the reading room, containing the leading reference books; the president's recep- 
tion room, containing chiefly serial publications and sets of periodicals; the hall room, 
containing mainly the old books on religion and theology; and the stage room, in which 
are shelved principally duplicates and books not in use. Besides, the literature on 
botany and biology is shelved in the biological room, and that on geology, numbering 
750 books and charts, in the geological room, both on the main upper floor of the uni- 
versity building. 

The Mount Vernon alcove occupies three rooms, practically the entire first floor 
of the college of the political sciences, 819 Fifteenth street. It contains 3,411 volumes 
exclusive of pamphlets, distributed as follows: Political science and history, economics 
and sociology, 1,281 volumes. The front room, well equipped with tables and chairs, 
is used for reading and study. 

The divisional collection of the college of engineering occupies the large front room 
on the second story of the first of the I street buildings, and contains 777 books, and 
150 unbound, more or less complete, volumes of engineering magazines. This room 
is provided also with a large central table having a periodical rack. 

The divisional collection of the teachers' college occupies the rear room on the first 
floor of the building and contains 642 books and 175 pamphlets on education, philosophy, 
psychology, and ethics. The room is well provided with tables and chairs. 

The divisional collection of the division of architecture occupies an alcove room 
adjoining the dean's office on the first floor of the architectural building. It contains 
75 books and folios of plates and drawings. 

The university library contains, therefore, 42,365 volumes and pamphlets, or count- 
ing in the old books on religion and theology and the duplicates, 45,064 volumes and 
pamphlets. 

Naturally in a library that has existed for more than eighty years one expects to 
find some old and useless material. But I am pleased to be able to emphasize the fact 
that in our university library there is relatively less of such material than would at 
first appear, for the reason that, after all, our library did not begin to develop until 
six or seven years ago. At that time there were not more than 10,000 volumes all 
told. The accessions since then, with the exception of the Heinzel and Wachsmuth 
collections and gifts, have been in the main such standard treatises and texts as were 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 



119 



recommended by the professors themselves for the use of their students in connection 
with the regular class-room work. 

As to valuable books, there are many both in the Heinzel library on Germanic liter- 
ature and philology, and the Wachsmuth library on classical history and archasology, 
and among the old stock that had accumulated prior to the reorganization of the library 
in the fall of 1906. 

With reference to the money value of the library, no volume by volume inventory 
has as yet been undertaken, but on the basis of the annual library appropriation and 
the purchasing value of the two special collections acquired, the university library 
represents an outlay of about |35,000. This does not, of course, include the value of 
the gifts, which have been very considerable during the past five years, and may be 
estimated at |2,000. 

In conclusion, my dear Mr. President, I desire to take advantage of this opportunity 
to thank you for your kindly and helpful interest in the development of the library. 
It could not possibly have attained its present eiBciency without your sympathetic 
cooperation. 

Most respectfully submitted . 

Alfred F. W. Schmidt, 

Librarian. 



Exhibit J. 
General equipment. 

Furniture and equipment used in administration and teaching: 

Furniture and equipment in the offices of the president, secretary, and 

treasurer |1, 503. 00 

Furniture and equipment in the libraries 3, 679. 50 

Furniture and equipment in the dean's offices 1, 418. 00 

Furniture and equipment in lecture halls, class rooms, and laboratories . 10, 941. 00 

Total 17, 541. 50 



Exhibit K. 

Class enrollment for the past three years in each subject taught in the departments 
of engineering, architecture, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy. 



Class. 



College of Engineering: 

Civil engineering course 

Electrical engineering course 

Mechanical engineering course 

Special 

Class enrollments in technical engineering subjects: 

Civil engineering 

Electrical engineering 

Mechanical engineering 

Mechanical drawing 

Other courses in drawing 

Machine design 

Shop work 

Applied mathematics 

Division of architecture: 

Free-hand drawing 

Architectural drawing and elementary design.. 

Shades, shadows, and perspective 

Rendering and design 

History of architecture 

History of sculpture and painting 

Design and sketch design (advanced) * 

Building construction 

Water-color drawing and rendering 



1908-9. 



191 



180 



120 



GEORGE WASHIJSTGTOlSr UNIVERSITY. 



Class. 



College of veterinary medicine: o 
First year subjects — 

Anatomy 

Chemistry 

Histology 

Embryology 

Materia medica 

Pharmacy 

Horseshoeing 

Clinics 

Second year subjects — 

Biochemistry 

Bacteriology 

Pathology 

Physiology 

Canine medicine 

Theory and practice of veterinary medicine. 

Surgery 

Zootechnics 

Clinics 

College of pharmacy: 

Pharmacy 

Materia medica 

General and analytical chemistry 

Microscopy 

Mercantile pharmacy 

Pharmaceutical jurisprudence 



1907-8. 



1908-9. 



1909-10. 



17 
17 
17 
17 
17 
17 
17 
17 

28 
28 
28 
28 
28 
28 
28 
28 
28 

76 
72 
75 
45 
17 
17 



a The college of veterinary medicine was organized and commenced teaching October 1, 1908. 
comprises three years of study. 



The course 



Exhibit L. 

Class enrollment in other subjects under the Morrill acts (see circular letter of the 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, November 26, 1900), taken by 
students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, not included in Exhibit K. Some 
of the students in these subjects are in the college of liberal arts. 



Subject. 



1907-8. 


1908-9. 


4 


4 


72 


113 


111 


160 


169 


223 


7 


7 


316 


497 


39 


60 




12 
2 


5 


5 


3 


41 


38 


22 


47 


40 


18 


42 


60 


5 


16 



1909-10. 



Instruction in English language: 

English language 

English literature 

~ Composition and rhetoric 

Instruction in mathematical sciences: 

Mathematics 

Astronomy 

Instruction in natural and physical sciences: 

Chemistry, including metallurgy 

Physics 

Biology 

Botany 

Zoology 

Geology and mineralogy 

Physiology 

Bacteriology 

Instruction in economic sciences: 

Political economy 

Commercial geography 



5 
122 
143 

174 
11 

509 
75 



Exhibit M. 

Salaries, department of engineering and mechanic arts, 1909-10. 

Hodgkins, H. L., dean 

Hodgkins, H. L. , professor of mathematics 2, 200 

Betts, Philander, assistant professor electrical engineering 1, 400 

Dunstan, E. V., assistant professor civil engineering 1, 400 

Mechlin, O. A., assistant professor civil engineering 1, 200 

Mortimer, C. W., instructor in electrical engineering 1, 200 

Starr, F. C. , instructor in civil engineering • 1, 200 

Varney, E. W. , instructor in physics 200 

Willard, C. F. , instructor in mechanical engineering 300 



9,600 



GEORGE WASHIIsrGTO:^' UNIVERSITY. 121 

Exhibit N. 
Salaries, division of architects, 1909-10. 

Bibb, A. B., acting dean and professor $2, 000 

Harris, A. A., student assistant 22 

Murphy, F. V., instructor in architecture 250 

Smith, D. H., instructor in architecture 120 

2, 392 



Exhibit O. 
Salaries, college of veterinary medicine, 1909-10. 

There are no stated salaries in this college, compensation being arranged on the 
basis of the distribution of the net profit, if any. Students in veterinary medicine 
take certain laboratory work under professors in the medical department, the pro- 
fessors in the medical department being allowed extra compensation for such 
instruction. 



Exhibit P. 

Salaries, college of pharmacy, 1909-10. 

Kalusowski, H. E., dean and professor of pharmacy $600 

Hillebrand, W. F., professor of general chemistry 450 

Holton, F. A., professor of analytical chemistry 450 

Waggaman, Samuel, professor of materia medica 450 

Howard, D. J., professor of microscopy 300 

Bradbury, H. M., assistant professor of chemistry 175 

Grady, W. J., assistant professor of pharmacy 60 

Judd, B., assistant professor of pharmacy 40 

Muncaster, Alexander, professor of jurisprudence. 50 

Floyd, H. D., professor of mercantile pharmacy 50 

2,625 



Exhibit Q. 

Salaries arts and sciences, 1909-10. ., 

Wilbur, William A., dean 

Wilbur, William A., professor of English 2, 500 

Bassler, R. S., instructor in geology 300 

Carroll, Mitchell, professor of classical languages 1, 400 

Croissant, D. C, assistant professor of English 1, 200 

Ellis, H. S., dean of women 600 

Henning, G. N., professor of romance languages 2, 200 

Hill, E. A., assistant professor in history 400 

Hodgkins, H. L., professor of physics 300 

Ingersoll, E. H., student assistant in chemistry 55 

Macmillan, Julia, assistant in zoology 200 

Merrill, G. P., professor of geology and mineralogy 400 

Peake, J. F. , assistant professor in history 1, 200 

Peck, P. N . , assistant professor in mathematics 1, 200 

Price, Thomas M. , assistant professor in chemistry 300 

Schmidt, A. F. W., assistant professor in German 800 

Schoenfeld, H., professor of German 2, 200 

Smith, C. S. , assistant professor in Greek and Latin 1, 100 

Sniffen, T. W. , assistant in romance languages 300 

Swett, O. D., assistant professor of chemistry 1, 500 

Swisher, C. C. , professor of history 2, 000 

Tucker, P. S., student assistant in chemistry 215 

20, 870 



122 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVEESITY, 

Exhibit R. 

Salaries, college of the political sciences, 1909-10. 

McBain, H. L., dean $300 

McBain, H. L., assistant professor 1, 500 

Black, B., clerk 360 

Charlton, Paul, lecturer 250 

Harlan, John M. , professor 600 

Kern, R. R., instructor in economics 1, 200 

Latimer, J. W., instructor in common law 500 

Manning, W. R., assistant professor, history 1, 600 

Osborne, J. B., lecturer 500 

Scott, J. B., professor international law 2, 000 

*Snow, A. H., lecturer 250 

Stowell, E. C, instructor, consular science 1, 100 

Swisher, 0. C, professor of history 300 

Willis, H. P., professor of finance ,. . 1, 200 



11, 660 



Exhibit S. 

Salaries, teachers^ college, 1909-10. 

Hough, W. S., dean 

Hough, W. S . , professor of philosophy 2, 200 

Kramer, S. E., lecturer 100 

Myers, G. E., lecturer 300 

Ruediger, W. C, assistant professor educational psychology 1, 800 

Small, W. S., lecturer , 300 



4,800 



Exhibit T. 

Salaries, medicine, 1909-10. 

Borden, W. C, dean $100 

Borden, W. C, professor of sm'gery 900 

Acker, G. N., professor of pediatrics and clinical medicine 50 

Bovee, J. W., professor of gynecology 100 

Brandenburg, W. R., demonstrator 100 

Butler, W. K., professor of ophthalmology 50 

Cabell, J. M., assistant professor of obstetrics 50 

Claytor, T. A., professor materia medica and therapeutics 100 

Copeland, E. P., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics 50 

Donnally, H. H., assistant professor of bacteriology and pathology 50 

Eisenberg, A. A., student assistant in histology 75 

Elliott, H. H., instructor in physiology 50 

Franz, S. I., professor of physiology 1, 000 

Fremont-Smith, F., clinical instructor in medicine 50 

Irmen, F. A., student assistant in bacteriological laboratory 75 

Jennier, Frank, janitor in bacteriological laboratory 360 

King, A. F. A., professor of obstetrics 100 

Lawson, H. W., professor of histoloy and embryology 300 

Medford, H. S., instructor in obstetrics 50 

Miller, G. B., instructor in gynecology 50 

Morse, E. E., assistant professor of obstetrics 50 

Phelps, I. K., assistant professor of chemistry 1, 200 

Prentiss, D. W., professor of histology 50 

Reichelderfer, L. H., assistant clinical professor of surgery 50 

Richardson, C. W. , professor of laryngology and otology 50 

Ruffin, Sterling, professor of theory and practice 100 

Russell, F. F., professor of bacteriology and pathology 1, 200 

Seibert, E.G., assistant in chemistry and ophthalmology 100 

Sellner, A. E., clerk 420 

*Resigned January 29, 1910. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 123 

Shands, A. R., professor of orthopedic surgery |50 

Shute, D. K., professor of anatomy 100 

Sowers,' W. F. M., assistant professor of surgery 50 

Thompson, J. L., instructor in surgery 50 

Wellington, J. R., clinical professor of surgery 100 

White, W. A. , professor of mental diseases 50 

Wilkinson, W. W., assistant in chemistry 225 

Woodward, W. C, professor of medical jurisprudence - 50 

Yarrow, H. C, professor of dermatology 50 



Exhibit V. 
Salaries, graduate studies, 1909-10. 
Munroe, Charles E., dean. 



7, 605 

Exhibit U. 

Salaries, dentistry, 1909-10. 

Barnes, Noble, professor materia medica $75 

Bassett, C. T. , in charge of infirmary 500 

Calver, G. W. , student assistant chemical laboratory 75 

DeFarges, J. R., assistant professor metallurgy 50 

Franz, S. I., professor of physiology 200 

Gartrell, Julian, no compensation 

Hopkins, H. C, instructor operative technics 50 

Lawrence, W. F., assistant professor prosthetic technics 75 

Lawson, H. W., professor histology and embryology '. . 100 

Luckett, Geo. S., student assistant chemical laboratory 75 

Odor, C. L., assistant professor operative technics 75 

Owen, W. O., professor of anatomy 100 

Seibert, E.G., professor of chemistry 100 

Sellner, A. E., clerk 120 

Shoemaker, C. P.. instructor orthodontia technics 50 

Taylor, J. W., instructor prosthetic technics 50 

Thompson, H. C. , professor operative technics 400 

Walton, J. R., dean 200 

Walton, J. R., professor prosthetic dentistry and orthodontia 400 

White, C. S., professor oral surgery 75 

Wolfe, A. S., assistant professor crown, bridge, and porcelain work 75 

Young, H. C, instructor prosthetic technics 50 



2.895 



Munroe, CharleS E., professor of chemistry 2, 800 

Price, Thomas M., assistant professor of chemistry 300 

Abbott, H. L., professor hydraulic engineering 

Bartsch, Paul, professor of zoology 

Bigelow, F. H., professor of astro-physics 

Buckingham, E., lecturer in thermodynamics 

Clarke, F. W., professor mineral chemistry 

Cohen, Louis, assistant professor mathematics 

Fowle, F. E., lecturer in astro-physics 

Frisby , E . , professor astronomy 

Hall, A . , professor astronomy \ a QSO 

Hopkins, N. M., assistant professor of chemistry 

Mann, A., professor of botany 

Merrill, G. P., professor geology and mineralogy 

Nutting, P. G., assistant professor physics 

Rosa, E. B., professor of physics 

Stanton, T. W., assistant professor of paleontology 

Sternberg, G. M., professor preventive medicine 

Wiley, H. W., professor agricultural chemistry 



4,280 



a Compensation on a basis of |40 per assigned student. 



124 GEOEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Exhibit W. 

Salaries, library, 1909-10. 

Bowen, N. L., librarian, C. P. S 165.00 

Dutton, D. L., assistant librarian, A. and S. 90. 00 

Gilliss, Helen, assistant librarian, teachers 75. 00 

Jones, Eleanor, assistant librarian, A. and S 60. 00 

Matthews, M. Alice, assistant librarian, A. and S 900. 00 

Schmidt, A. F. W., librarian 1, 000. 00 

Sloat, J. I., assistant librarian, medicine 75. 00 

Smith, A. C., librarian, medicine 75. 00 

Tilton, Rufus, librarian, law 270, 00 

Yancy, C. L., librarian, law 260. 00 

2, 870. 00 



Exhibit X. 

LABORATORY CHARGES. 

College of engineering and mechanic arts, and architecture. 

[University Catalogue, 1908-9, p. 118.] 

Material fees: 

Mineralogy, botany, and zoology, each |5. 00 

Chemistry 2, 3, and 7; electrical engineering, physics, each 10. 00 

Chemistry 4 (assaying) 20. 00 

Chemistry, except 2, 3, 4, and 7, each 25. 00 

Deposits to cover breakage of apparatus issued, the amount paid in excess of 
breakage to be returned: 

Chemistry, 2, 3, and 7, each 10. 00 

Chemistry, except 2, 3, 4, and 7, each 25. 00 

College of veterinary medicine. 

Histology 8. 50 

Inorganic chemistry 6. 50 

Organic chemistry 6. 25 

Physiology 15. 00 

Bacteriology and pathology 19. 00 

National college of pharmacy. 

No special charge is made for laboratory fees. 

The charge for materials is included in the tuition fee. 

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